Carlo Ratti unveils Alpine bivouac for Milano-Cortina Winter Games
From a temporary urban pavilion to an Alpine bivouac. This architecture stores energy and harvests water, bringing together digital fabrication and landscape sensitivity.
‘OUT’: How Space-Inspired Architecture Could Help Save the Planet
The OUT section of the 2025 Venice Biennale explores how space-driven innovation can build and shape a sustainable future through architecture.
Collective Intelligens: Learning from Shared Wisdom in Architecture
The ‘Collective Intelligens’ section at the 2025 Venice Biennale shows how the knowledge communities have passed down across generations can inspire resilient, people-driven architecture and become a pivotal tool to trigger change.
Artificial Intelligens: AI, robots, 3D-printing and data science at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
The Artificial Intelligence section of Carlo Ratti’s Biennale shows how technology is shaping the world around us—from the spaces we live in to the systems that keep society running.
Carlo Ratti Unveils Essential, The 2026 Winter Olympics Torch Design
Essential is a pair of iridescent, sleek, cylindrical, lightweight torches “stripping away superfluous design to truly highlight the Olympic and Paralympic flame,” explains Carlo Ratti.
Expo 2025 Osaka: Twenty Striking Pavilions
Renaissance gardens, traditional fishing boats and desert villages inspire the architecture of these striking pavilions at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Intelligens: Carlo Ratti’s Venice Architecture Biennale, a preview
Titled Intelligens, Carlo Ratti’s Biennale focuses on architecture that tackles climate change and today’s global issues with a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Kengo Kuma presents a high-tech installation upcycling fallen trees, Ukrainian architects harness AI to rebuild their country, and astronauts invite us to focus on our planet first.
Carlo Ratti curates the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale highlights a new collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to tackling climate change.
SunRICE installation by Carlo Ratti in Milan is made from rice waste
SunRICE shows how processing rice waste can become a raw material for new and sustainable architecture. After Milan Design Week, the installation will become nourishment to be reintroduced into the garden’s soil.
Food and Beverage blend with design at Milan Design Week 2024
Coffee, exotic rums, balsamic vinegar and gelato are the ingredients of some of the best Food and Beverage projects and exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2024.
2020 round up: best 10 COVID-19 related architecture and design stories
From shipping containers turned into ICUs to to ‘silent’ architectural photo-essays, functional & safe furnitures and iconic techno clubs reopening as art spaces. We rounded up 10 Covid-19 related architecture and design stories of 2020.
Fuorisalone 2019: 14 architectural design exhibitions in Milan
Giorgio Armani celebrates Tadao Ando, Arthur Mamou-Mani digitally designs COS installation, Carlo Ratti grows architecture like a mushroom while Mario Cucinella pays tribute to Bauhaus… 12 architectural design exhibitions at Milan Design Week
Living Nature: Carlo Ratti simultaneously nests 4 seasons under the same roof in Milan
The Living Nature garden pavilion by Carlo Ratti for Salone del Mobile uses energy flow controls to allow spring, summer, autumn and winter to coexist under the same roof.
Fuorisalone 2018: 7 secret gardens, eclectic forests and green pavilions in Milan
Four seasons flourishing under the same roof, a glowing-city at Brera Botanic Orchard and a forest of lanterns under the castle. Nature conquers Milan Design Week 2018; discover green pavilions by Kengo Kuma, piuarch, Mario Cucinella, Carlo Ratti and more…
5 verdant skyscrapers aiming to turn our cities’ skylines into forests
Suspended green oases, energy-consumption extensions and wooden high-rises. Sou Fujimoto, Stefano Boeri, Stephan Malka, Big and Carlo Ratti designed verdant skyscrapers for a greener urban future.
Carlo Ratti masterplans Milan’s World Expo site to become an innovation hub
Carlo Ratti Associati reimagines Milan’s World Expo site as a theme park for science and technology featuring the world’s first neighborhood planned for self-driving cars.
Carlo Ratti’s responsive workspace for Fondazione Agnelli tunes new working habits with the internet of things
Personalized thermal bubbles, suspended nets and a co-working office in the orchard. Carlo Ratti Associati completed a digitally responsive architecture for Fondazione Agnelli. The new hub in Turin embraces new ways of net-working by using bigdata and the internet of things.
SWISH kinetic stool by Carlo Ratti Associati is crafted with programmable wood
Carlo Ratti Associati presents SWISH, a kinetic prototype-stool that makes use of a digital fabrication technology for programmable wooden furniture.
Vitra Design Museum explores our love-hate relationship with robots
From Terminator to smart floor sweepers but also 3D printers for bridges and responsive fashion designs. Shall we trust robots? Vitra Design Museum looks into our complex relationship with intelligent machines that could either save our lives or steal our job.
Water mobility: self-driving boats and the internet of sailing, get ready for high-tech hydrodynamics
Water mobility: personal submarines and navigating floating gyms, the ultimate water-bike but also self-driving Roboats crossing Amsterdam canals… With 70% of the planet covered in water, the future of traveling might come as a gliding technology.
Italian architects on the aftermaths of deadly earthquake in central Italy
After central Italy deadly earthquake, Renzo Piano, Carlo Ratti, Cino Zucchi and Massimiliano Fuksas share their minds on reconstruction.
Internet of Things is not a threat as long as it is human-centred, say innovators to ArchiPanic
How will the internet of things frame our future living space? ArchiPanic met influential innovators Carlo Ratti, Reto Wettach, Jessica Nebel and Alessandro Masserdotti who believe that hype-free human-centred technology can honestly improve our future.
The Mile: the world’s highest vertical park and observation deck by Carlo Ratti Associati
On the occasion of the official presentation of The Mile, the highest vertical panoramic park, Carlo Ratti Associati share their opinion on urban vertical spree and visionary verticality in architecture.