Conrad-Bercah: An Architect Caught Between Love and Outrage
Architect, author, teacher and artist, Paolo Conrad-Bercah has built a career that crosses boundaries between disciplines and countries with as much freedom as his thinking. After studying at the Politecnico di Torino and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he worked with Aldo Rossi and Ignazio Gardella in Milan and with I. M. Pei’s practice in New York, before establishing his own studio, c-b a. He has taught at Harvard, lectured at MIT, and currently teaches at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Genoa. His architecture includes Berlin’s Bercahaus, the city’s first five-story highly prefabricated building, whose timber structure was assembled on site in just 21 days.
His books and drawings explore many of the same preoccupations that run through his architecture: cities, aesthetics, memory and the passage of time. This October, another strand of that multidisciplinary practice comes to the fore in Rome with Quid Tum, AI? Ombre | Caverne | Miti, an exhibition bringing together 36 drawings produced in 2026.
