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Carlo Ratti (Principal Architect)
Andrea Cassi (Principal Architect)
Practice Ideology
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati is an international design and innovation practice based in Turin, Italy, New York, NY, and London, England. Drawing on Carlo Ratti’s research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the office is currently involved in many projects across the globe, embracing every scale of intervention—from furniture to urban planning.
Among recent works are the AquaPraça, which served as an integral part of the Italian Pavilion for COP30 in Belém, the Mutti Canteen’s Quisimangia in Parma, a circular building carved from the earth and topped with a living green roof, the adaptive reuse of Oscar Niemeyer’s masterpiece Palazzo Mondadori in Milan, and a digitally fabricated bivouac for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics.
CRA is the only design firm whose work has been featured three times in TIME Magazine’s “Best Inventions of the Year” list – with the Digital Water Pavilion, the Copenhagen Wheel, and Scribit. Carlo Ratti is appointed Director of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2025).
