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𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗢 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗔 (2 October 1953 - 6 April 2024) Architecture is the answer, but what is the question? Well, Italo was a great innovator – one of those rare designers capable not only of giving new answers, but of asking himself new questions. We became friends working together on the Expo Milano 2015 project. But it was after another Expo experience – that of Dubai 2020 – that we began a large-scale collaboration. We have carried out all the projects of the last 5 years together. In architecture we were passionate about the same themes: interaction with people, new design processes and - ultimately - greater integration between the natural and artificial world. Italo loved to play, with splendid depth, and the way we met and collaborated in the last years of his career often made me think that design, in its best moments, can equal one of the capabilities of great poetry: being equally synthetic and touching, elliptical and sparkling. — Carlo Ratti
