Samuel Balasso

ARCHITECT

Samuel Balasso is a partner and founder of NCBARCHITETTURA together with Riccardo Emanuele.

After graduating in 1996 in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, he worked some years in Aldo Rossi studio (ARA associati), where he focused on retail projects. Later, he joined B&B Italia as project manager in the contract section, running Milan stagings for Ermenegildo Zegna, Dolce & Gabbana, Armani, Check Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong. From 2000 to 2002 he collaborated with Bulthaup for the commercial strategies and exhibitions development in Italy. He participated to many architectural and design competitions and he started working as a freelancer together with Riccardo Emanuele and Alex Gelfi.

Riccardo Emanuele

ARCHITECT

Riccardo Emanuele is a partner and founder of NCBARCHITETTURA together with Samuel Balasso.

In 1996 he graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, after participating in 1993 at the Erasmus project in Escuela Tecnica Superior of Valladolid (Spain) as an annual fellow. He collaborated as a subject expert with the Industrial Design class at Politecnico di Milano (Marco Turinetto professor) until 1999. He participated to many architectural and design competitions and he started working as a freelancer together with Samuel Balasso and Alex Gelfi. In 2000 he achieved a Master in Applied Ergonomy  at Politecnico di Milano. In 2019 he got an Executive Master in Business Design at the 24ore Business School.