Olbos Studio is a Brooklyn-based architecture, design and interiors firm founded by Italian architect Giorgia
Cedro in 2021. Current projects range from residential and commercial to mixed-use, both in New York and Northern Italy.
Olbos Studio’s projects are driven by curiosity and the firm’s design language seeks a sober playfulness, always
attempting to bring out the personality of the clients and the character of the context, with a peculiar attention
to details and narrow spaces. Ancient Greeks called olbos, a rare condition of bliss that comes from the
responsible effort to make the best use of one’s skills (talents): this is the approach the Studio strives to
achieve through the design of space. Olbos Studio is committed to freshness and liveliness at all design levels,
from concept and graphic representation to detail and built environments.
Giorgia Cedro founded Olbos Studio in 2021 with the dream to make it an itinerant architectural office that
would be based on the cross-contamination of different ways to conceive the built environment from her
Italian roots, her professional experiences in Tokyo, to the melting pot of New York. Giorgia is inspired by
different traditional crafts and the the use of materials to express specific qualities in every project that reflect
their unique character, while maintaining an open dialogue with the physical context.
Since her first internship in Tokyo in 2012, she developed an insatiable curiosity for largely populated cities - in
particular for the unique habits and ways of inhabiting space in the global cities (New York, London, Tokyo),
carrying on a personal research that germinated from studying Saskia Sassen’s The Global City and still
continues today. Some of her writings have been published on Academic researches such as the European
Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design (2016) and The Global City. The urban condition
as a pervasive phenomenon (2020).
Prior to founding Olbos Studio, Giorgia worked for WORKac and Cicognani Kalla in New York, Cino Zucchi
Architetti and LAND in Milan, and had two extended internships in Tokyo, at Klein Dytham architecture and
Miurashin Architect + Associates. While working with Cino Zucchi, she also participated as a tutor to the
international workshop Inhabitable Skins with students from Politecnico di Milano and TU Graz (Austria).
