Carla Ferrando studied architecture at ETSAV in Barcelona and at the Technical University of Eindhoven. She has worked for more than six years as an architect at Diener & Diener Architekten and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel.

Carla has taught at the Bauhaus University Weimar, ETH Zurich and TU Wien and is currently a guest professor at EPFL. She was a workshop leader at the Porto Academy 2025 and has been invited as a guest critic and lecturer at several universities, among them ETH Zurich, AAM Mendrisio, EPFL Lausanne, HEAD Genève, Harvard GSD, SCI-Arc, TU München, KIT Karlsruhe, Aarhus School of Architecture, the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, Polimi Milano, ETSAM Madrid, and FAU Santiago de Chile.

She is a founding partner, together with Pablo Garrido Arnaiz, of PARABASE, an entity operating within architecture and urbanism.