Paolo Brescia is an Italian architect and founder of OBR Open Building Research.
After working with Renzo Piano, he founded OBR with Tommaso Principi in the year 2000 to investigate new ways of contemporary living, creating a design network among Milan, London, Mumbai and New York.
With OBR his projects have been featured in international exhibitions, including at X Biennale di Architettura in Venice 2006; RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects in London 2007; V Bienal de Arquitetura in Brasilia 2007; XI Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura in Buenos Aires 2007; AR Award Exhibition in Berlin 2008; China International Architectural Expo in Beijing 2009; International Expo in Shangai 2010; UIA 24th World Congress of Architecture in Tokyo 2011; Energy at MAXXI in Rome 2013; Italy Now in Bogotá 2014; Small Utopias in Johannesburg 2014; XIV Biennale di Architettura in Venice 2014; Triennale di Milano in Milan 2015 and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York 2016.
From 1998, Paolo Brescia worked with Renzo Piano until the establishment of OBR Open Building Research in 2000.
With OBR, he won several design competitions, such as: Pythagoras Museum (2003), Galleria Sabauda in the Real Palace in Turin (2003), Milanofiori Residential Complex (2005), Ex Cinema Roma in Parma (2006), Galliera Hospital in Genoa (2009), Cesme Waterfront (2012), Via XX Settembre in Genoa (2012), Michelin HQ and Research Labs in Delhi (2014), Terrazza Triennale in Milan (2014), Parco Centrale di Prato (2015), Comparto Stazioni Varese (2016), Educational Pavilion in Unimore University in Modena (2018), Museo Mitoraj in Pietrasanta (2019), MIND Innovation Hub in Milan (2020), Casa BFF (2023) Paolo has received several awards from around the world.