Speaker Info

Mario Cucinella
Founder, Mario Cucinella Architects

Mario Cucinella is the founder of Mario Cucinella Architects with offices in Bologna, Milan and New York.

In 2012 he founded Building Green Futures, a non-profit organization promoting sustainable development through low carbon architecture and urban regeneration.

In 2015, Cucinella founded SOS – School of Sustainability – a multi-disciplinary post-graduate master based in Bologna that integrated education, practice and research experience intended to build a culture of sustainability.

The impact and significance of his work  as an architect and educator have been recognized world-wide and most recently (2017) with Honorary Fellowship Award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) with their prestigious International Fellowship (2016).

In 2018, he was the Curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018 with “Arcipelago Italia” an exhibition project focused on the marginal territories of Italy.