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Shanghai

Based in Milan, Shanghai and Tirana, Stefano Boeri Architetti has been dedicated to research and design in architecture and urban planning since 1993. Multiplicity has guided the practice’s work for more than three decades, ranging from urban planning to architecture and design, with a consistent focus on the geopolitical and environmental implications of urban transformations. The studio develops masterplans and architectural projects in complex contexts across continents, fostering collaboration among the public and private stakeholders involved.

This integrated and multidisciplinary approach has given Stefano Boeri Architetti a distinctive identity and established the practice as a leading voice in sustainable architecture and strategic urban development across scales, both in Italy and internationally.

The studio’s standing is reflected in several international honours; among others: Milan’s Bosco Verticale received the International Highrise Award (2014) and CTBUH’s Best Tall Building Worldwide award (2015), while Wonderwoods in Utrecht won Best Mixed-Use Project at the MIPIM Awards (2025) and Climate Resilience Excellence at the BREEAM Awards (2026).
In 2020, the U.S. Green Building Council recognised Stefano Boeri and the studio with its Certificate of Professional Leadership for their contribution to architectural biodiversity, reinforcing the practice’s role in shaping greener, more resilient and inclusive cities.

In 2023, thanks to its design approach, the practice Stefano Boeri Architetti was awarded the UN SDGs Action Award in the “Inspire” category in 2023 by the United Nations, as it “envisions sustainable cities and communities that prioritise health and wellbeing, while intensifying climate action through its creative approach to urban planning, ecological connectivity and urban forestry, meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals”.

The studio’s partners are Stefano Boeri, Francesca Cesa Bianchi and Marco Giorgio and Pietro Chiodi. Its directors are Hana Hosi Narvaez Bautista, Livia Sharmir (Research Department) and Corrado Longa (Urban Planning Department).

Stefano Boeri Architetti has obtained ISO 9001:2015 certification, confirming the adoption of a Quality Management System (QMS) designed to optimise internal processes, ensure design quality control, and enhance client satisfaction.

Stefano Boeri
Founding partner

Stefano Boeri, architect and urban planner, is Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano and heads the Future City Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai, a post-doctoral research programme that anticipates the mutation of planetary metropolises, from the biodiversity and urban forestry perspective. He has been a visiting professor at several international universities such as Harvard University Graduate School of Design, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. He is President of the Scientific Committee of Forestami, the urban forestry project in the Milanese metropolitan area. From 2018 to 2026 he has been President of Triennale Milano.

Architect of the Bosco Verticale, built in Milan in 2014, Stefano Boeri is among the main protagonists in the debate on climate change in the field of international architecture. In 2017, he participates in the Commonwealth Regenerative Development to Reverse Climate Change programme; he is co-chair of the scientific committee of the World Forum on Urban Forests (Mantua, 2018 – Washington, 2023) and, on the occasion of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019, he presents in New York the Great Green Wall of Cities /Green Urban Oases project, realised together with FAO, C40 and other international research institutes. In 2023, in the context of the European Respiratory Society’s International Congress, Stefano Boeri is awarded the ELF Award, a recognition from the European Lung Foundation “for his work to improve air quality in urban environments”.

Stefano Boeri is known for his research and visions on the future of the urban condition in the world, which have seen him involved in designing regeneration and development plans for metropolises and large cities, including São Paulo, Geneva, Tirana, Cancun, Riyadh, Cairo and in Italy Milan, Genoa, Cagliari, Naples, Padua, Taranto and many others. His research has been published in international books and journals; among his books: Il territorio che cambia (Abitare Segesta, 1992); AAVV, Mutations (Actar, 2001); Multiplicity, Use Uncertain States of Europe (Skira, 2003); Biomilano: glossary of ideas for a biodiversity metropolis (Corraini, 2011); L’anticittá (Editori Laterza, 2011); A Vertical Forest (Corraini, 2015); La città scritta (Quodlibet, 2016); Urbania (Editori Laterza, 2021); Green Obsession: Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests (Actar, 2021).

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Francesca Cesa Bianchi
Partner / Director

Francesca Cesa Bianchi graduated in 2005 in architecture at Milan Politecnico. In 2008 she attended a first level master on collective housing at the Escuela Politecnica de Madrid.
Since 2006, within her collaboration with different architectural firms in Milan and Madrid, she manages complex multi-purpose projects from competition phase, through concept, preliminary and detail design, to construction documentation.
At Stefano Boeri Architetti, she works as Director and coordinates urban regeneration and architecture projects all over the world, in particular in Mexico, Netherlands and Middle East.
Since 2015 she has played a key role in the management of all architectural projects and strategic plans of the studio in Albania and since 2019 she is partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti.
She participated as a speaker at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven in 2020 and at the UIA International Forum 2022 – Affordable Housing Activation: Removing barriers in Madrid, organized by the International Union of Architects.

Marco Giorgio
Partner / Director

Marco Giorgio lives and works in Milan. After years of studies and training at the Federico II Faculty in Naples, he worked with various architectural firms as a freelance professional. Since 2001 he collaborates with Stefano Boeri on the design and construction of different styles of buildings – residential, commercial and administrative – and also on the coordination of interventions on different scales, from urban and planning design, to design of installations. He is currently Partner of SBA (since 2019) and Project Director; as coordinator of the design team and in charge of the works / artistic direction, he has followed numerous works from the concept phase to the realization, especially in Italy, France and Switzerland. He also participated as speaker in the event Infrastructural Nodes and Urban Regeneration. Stations, public space, environmental quality. Case studies, held at the Politecnico di Milano in 2019, and he presented the project of the new Policlinico hospital in Milan at Fuori Orticola 2023.

Pietro Chiodi
Partner / Director

Pietro Chiodi graduated in 2003 from La Sapienza University of Architecture in Rome having also studied for a year at KU University in Leuven, Belgium. After being awarded his PhD in Environmental Design and Construction in 2008, he taught at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome as a Professor in 2011. From 2005 to 2008 he was a Partner in 2A+P architettura. Since September 2008 he has worked as Senior Architect/Project leader for the firm Stefano Boeri Architetti and in August 2016 he moved to Shanghai as Chief architect of Stefano Boeri Architetti China. Among the several projects, he followed the realization of the Sino-Italy Design Center in Beijing, the Nanjing Vertical Forest and the Vertical Forest in Huanggang. From October 2021 he moved back to Milan as Director; since 2023, he has become a partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. He has publicly presented his projects and realised site-specific installations for several international exhibitions, such as the XXIII World Congress UIA in Turin, the 5th Brasilia Biennal of Architecture and the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale.