My Villa is the Los Angeles practice of IT's Architecture — a studio founded in 2016, with offices in Rome and Paris. Our in-house team designs fire-resilient, insurable luxury villas in Malibu and Beverly Hills, and writes the Journal that tracks California's wildfire, insurance and WUI-Code landscape.
IT's Architecture is a research- and innovation-oriented practice established in 2016 by Alessandro Cambi, Francesco Marinelli and Paolo Mezzalama. The studio operates from Rome and Paris and works across cultural, residential and public commissions, with a consistent thesis: architecture as a long-duration object — designed to outlast trends, weather, and market cycles.
My Villa is the studio's California practice, focused on a single brief: luxury villas that stay insurable, standing, and livable through the fire cycles ahead. The Italian villa typology — courtyard, podium, portico, pergola, inward-facing garden — is reinterpreted for Malibu, Beverly Hills and the Westside, built to the 2026 California WUI Code and the IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home Plus standard from the first sketch.
The same people who design the homes also curate the Journal. That is deliberate: everything we publish is reviewed by a practicing architect before it goes live.
its.vision →The Journal is produced by the IT's Architecture team across its Rome, Paris and Los Angeles desks — the same practitioners who design the homes. We do not outsource the writing to a marketing agency. Every article is monitored, drafted, and reviewed internally, with one principle: we write only about topics we are qualified to build around.
A small team inside IT's Architecture that monitors California insurance regulation, WUI-Code updates, Fire Hazard Severity Zone revisions, municipal permit data, and fire-construction research on a daily basis. They draft the Journal entries and compile source notes; the design lead signs off before anything publishes.
We do not publish opinion pieces on unrelated topics. The Journal is a working record of a narrow domain: insurable luxury home-building in California. When a new bill, carrier announcement, code revision or fire event changes the calculus for a Malibu or Beverly Hills homeowner, we read it, fact-check it, and comment on it from an architect's point of view.
My Villa builds across greater Los Angeles, with primary focus on the luxury markets most exposed to wildfire risk and insurance volatility:
Our typology is equally suited to new custom builds and to rebuilds on fire-affected lots. The common thread is a client who wants their home to stay insurable and intact through the next cycle, not just through this one.
The My Villa Journal is not a marketing blog. It is a working record of the insurance, construction, and regulatory conditions that shape luxury homebuilding in California — published at a pace that reflects active monitoring, not SEO volume. Editorial rules we follow:
For editorial inquiries, media requests, or to discuss a project, write to info@myvilla.la. Requests for private briefings with Paolo Mezzalama and the design team can be made through our home page contact form. To learn more about the studio, visit its.vision.
If you are considering a luxury rebuild or new build in Malibu, Beverly Hills, or the broader Westside, request a private briefing with the IT's Architecture design team.
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