Giovanni received his Master's degree in Architecture and the City at IUAV in 2012 with the thesis Moscow’s Libraries Atlas: 448 Rooms with a View. The work explored the network of soviet municipal libraries and proposed a code for its revival. Before joining MIT's SMArchS program, Giovanni worked for SVESMI, a Dutch-Russian office dedicated to design and research, and The Why Factory, TU Delft’s think-tank led by Winy Maas.