Riccardo Cavaciocchi is an italian architect and art director based in New York City and Milan, engaged with providing solutions for architecture and interior design as foundations of critical, positive and pluralist thinking and expressing itself through the production of spaces.
After his studies in Italy (University of Architecture of Firenze) and France (Ecole d’Architecture Paris-La Defense) he went to work in Holland, Maastricht, for Wiel Arets Architects, and in Amsterdam for VMX Architects. Later collaborating on several projects with ByLissoni, the New York office of the Milan based Piero Lissoni firm. In 2003, he set up his own firm in Barcelona (Spain) with Rute Brazao, successively joined by Sandra Carito Ribeiro. In 2009 they found LOLA, local office for large architecture, a platform focused on multi-disciplinary architecture and contemporary design. The office later set up two more offices in Lecce (Italy) and Lisbon (Portugal). Since 2011, Riccardo Cavaciocchi has been based in NYC.