Paolo Conrad Bercah is the principal of C–B A — Conrad–Bercah Architects — a Milan–based architectural workroom. The office's extensively published work ranges from hotel facilities to residential, institutional, and commercial projects. He holds a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino and from the Harvard Design School where he currently serves as a design critic. He received the John D. Sawyer fellowship from the Longfellow Institute at the Harvard Department of English and American Literature in 1996 and the Arthur Wheelwright fellowship from the GSD in 1999. In 2002, he was awarded the first prize in the Rabin International Peace Forum Competition in Tel Aviv.