Italo Rota,  architect and urban planner founder of IRBO Italo Rota Building Office,  is the Scientific Director of NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, lecturer at Shanghai Wusong International Art City Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Advisor at the Tsinghua University of Beijing, one of the most prestigious Chinese universities.
IRBO was founded by Italo Rota (1953, Milano) who is a graduate of the polytechnic university of Milan. Upon winning the competition to design the interiors of Musée d’Orsay in the 80s, Rota moved to Paris working on many important projects in France among; the renovation of the museum of Contemporary art at the “Centre Pompidou”, with Gae Aulenti, the hall of the French school at Cour Carré of The Louvre museum, the lighting of Notre-Dame Cathedral, the lighting of the banks of the Seine river in Paris and the renovation of the historical center of the city of Nantes.
Rota returned to Milano in the 90s to become one of the leading architects of a new architecture, designing important projects in Italy and the world.
More recently, IRBO has designed the civic museums of Reggio Emilia, the new Elatech robot factory in Brembilla, the grand children theatre in Maciachini Milano, the new pavilion laboratory Noosphere at the
Triennale di Milano, The pavilion of Kuwait at EXPO Milano 2015, the pavilion of Italian wine and the pavilion of Arts and Foods.
Among IRBO’s symbolic projects, the Museo del Novecento in Piazza Duomo in Milan, the headquarters of Columbia University in New York, the Hindu Temple in Dolvy in India.
In 2021 the studio has built  the Italian Pavilion in Dubai for EXPO Dubai 2020, the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia, the creative lead of the MEET digital Culture Center projects in Milan,  Casa Mutti in Parma, MAE Museum in Fiorenzuola d’Arda The restoration and transformation project of the Palazzo del Podestà Monumental Complex in Mantua is nearing completion and the Museum of Carnival in Fano.