Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti in 2008
Born	1971 (1971) (age 46)
Occupation	Italian architect

Carlo Ratti (born 1971 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist founder of Carlo Ratti Associati and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. He is also a founding partner of the international design office Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy. Ratti was named one of the "50 most influential designers in America" by Fast Company and highlighted in Wired Magazine's "Smart List: 50 people who will change the world."

Ratti has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s 'Best & Brightest’ list and in Thames & Hudson’s selection of ‘60: Innovators Shaping our Creative Future.Blueprint Magazine included him as one of the ‘25 People Who Will Change Architecture and Design’,Forbes listed him as one of the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011.

Ratti graduated from both the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris, France, and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. He later earned his MPhil and PhD degrees from the Martin Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2000 he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Fulbright fellow, working with Hiroshi Ishii at the MIT Media Lab.