Born in Taurianova (Reggio Calabria), Alfonso Femia lives by leaving and returning to Genoa from Milan and Paris.
He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Genoa in 1992 and he is a member of the Order of Architects of Genoa, Île-de-France and Switzerland.
His projects include the new BNL-BNP Paribas headquarters in Rome, the Docks in Marseilles and the OGR in Turin.
In 2017, he changed the name of 5+1AA to AF517 or Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia.