Rotella Studio

Rotella Studio is an architecture and design practice founded in Milan in 1996 by Fabio Rotella (b. Catanzaro, 1963), who trained in Rome, took a master in industrial and management design at Domus Academy and worked from 1990 to 1995 at Atelier Mendini as coordinator of architecture, design and cultural projects.

The studio describes itself as a creative factory and works from Milan and Beijing on masterplans, urban regeneration, hotels, concept stores, restaurants and villas, with a team of architects, interior and industrial designers and graphic designers. In 2011 the Italian Ministry of Culture commissioned Rotella to build the first permanent Italian museum abroad inside the National Museum of China, and in 2014 the studio opened Italian Living Experience in the 751 district of Beijing as its Chinese base.