He was named "Academic of Merit" at the Accademia Ligustica of Genoa, later, Academician of the "Pietro Vannucci" Perugia Academy of Fine Arts, then Academician for the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino" and also later assumed a doctorate from the Engineering School of Rome.

Also in 1919 he was engaged in the construction of buildings in Messina under the patronage of the banking company Fratelli Cerruti Genoa.

That year he collaborated with his brothers on the decorative fitting out and furnishings of several ships owned by the Lloyd Sabaudo and Cosulich Triestina Navigation Company.

At this time Gaetano Rapisardi, the Sicilian architect who had married one of his daughters, worked with him on several projects in his Roman studio.

In 1921, in collaboration with his brother Adolfo, during his sojourn in Lierna he designed the Villa La Gaeta on Lake Como.

In Capriata d'Orba In Genoa: In Naples: In Messina: In Rome: In Pietrasanta In Livorno: In Tuscany, near Bucine (Arezzo): In Belém, Brazil: Villa La Gaeta on Lake Como is featured as a film location for James Bond in Casino Royale.

In 2016 Jonathan Meades in his BBC Four Art Documentary programme "Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism" (2016) attempted to create an urban myth by claiming as a jest that the song Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners was inspired by the architect.