TRA STUDIO was founded in 1998 and combines the strengths of Robert Traboscia, an environmental designer and an artist and Caterina Roiatti, an architect educated in France, Italy and the United States. Caterina and Bob met while at Vignelli Associates, working on complete identity projects, their collaboration draws from their prior cumulative experience and informs TRA’s studio interdisciplinary total approach and diversified portfolio.
Outside of work Cat and Bob are a family, busy raising a busy teenager, Bob also works in the ART STUDIO, his work can be seen at Robert Traboscia Instagram
CATERINA ROIATTI, AIA, NCARB
Co-founder, Principal
Accredited in the EUC
Caterina received her Doctor in Architecture Degree from the IUAV Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia in Italy, she is a Fulbright Scholar and received her Master in Architecture from Harvard, which she attended with a Fulbright Scholarship.
After being trained as a fine arts painter at the Academy of Venice, she started her professional career working on set design. Prior to founding TRA studio together with her Partner Robert Traboscia, she worked in the modernist offices of Peter Forbes and Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, Kohn Pedersen Fox and worked on interiors and identity projects at Vignelli Associates and Mathias Thoerner Design.
Her diversified education and professional experience, together with the Italian tradition of expansive creative thinking, allows her to work beyond any specialized aspect of design and to work across all scales, her profound knowledge of history assists her in the studio’s practice working on difficult and varied projects that present complex preservation issues. She routinely lectures on TRA’s design approach, she served, from 2012 thru 2021, as Co-Chair of the AIA Historic Building Committee. She also served on the AIA New York Chapter Exhibition Committee and is currently working with the AIANY Advocacy Committee.
cr@trastudio.com
ROBERT TRABOSCIA
Co-founder, Managing and Creative Director
Robert graduated from the Parsons School of Design, where he later also taught, with a degree in Environmental Design, a multidisciplinary program whose approach still informs his work and the studio’s philosophy. He started his professional career working at Rambush on the renovation and design of religious buildings, he then worked at Descon and Griswold Heckel Kelly Associates. He was a partner at Intell Design for four years, a firm specializing on Corporate Interiors, prior to starting a seven years association with Vignelli Design, where he was project designer and construction manager for numerous exhibit-like showrooms and the Vignelli Design Headquarters. He was an Associate for five years at Highland Associates, an A&E firm, where he contributed in the fast firm growth, from 2 to 50 employees.
His unusually broad background, passion for the “‘active” side of architecture, his negotiating skills and ability to motivate people, greatly assists the studio in collaborating with clients and contractors and, ultimately, in getting complex projects realized.
He personally writes all the contracts, which he sees as the first phase of any project. He coordinated the effort to prepare the Soho Master Plan effort led by Columbia University, served on the Soho Community Board and works with several SoHo Community associations.
rt@trastudio.com
WINSTON WOLF, RA
Senior Associate
Winston has been with TRA for the past nine years, working on projects with diversified typologies, at all scales and phases of design. He shares the TRA’s interdisciplinary approach and interest and that that all phase of design are meaningful, his responsibilities have included Design Development and Construction Documents, Coordination with MEP Consultants, and Construction Supervision, he has also been involved in contractor bidding negotiation and permit filing.
Winston oversees the architectural staff of TRA studio, ensuring that all documents are prepared at the highest standard.
Past projects Winston worked on include the NYAA, 128 East 28th Street and Nostrand Avenue. He is currently working on the complete renovation of 35 Worth Street in Manhattan and the 251-253 Fifth Avenue project, which includes the restoration of a significant landmarked building and the construction of a new 20 stories tower.
Winston received a Master in Architecture from Kansas State University.
ww@trastudio.com