ANDREA POMPILI
ARCHITECT
ART DIRECTOR
ART + ARCHITECTURE CRITIC
She was born in Cesena, Italy, in November 1989.
In 2015, she graduated with maximum grades from the Academy of Architecture, USI, Switzerland, with Prof. Arch. Valerio Olgiati, with a Theoretical Paper, The New Centrality of Canary Wharf. London’s Waterfront Neo-Tertiary Transformation with Prof. Arch. Joseph Acebillo. During her University career, in 2012, she worked as an Architecture Intern at Studio Luz Architects, Boston, and at NADAAA – Architecture & Urban Planning, Boston, founded by Arch. Nader Tehrani (head of Architecture Department at MIT, 2010-2014).
From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a teaching assistant to Prof. Marco Müller (Director of multiple Film Festivals, including Venice, Rome, Rotterdam, and Locarno) for the Style and Techniques of Cinema, MSc 1 class at the Academy of Architecture, USI.
She has been a Teaching Assistant for the Filming Architecture 2016 and 2017 workshops, featuring guests Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine and Heinz Emigholz.
In the film industry, she has worked as Production Designer Assistant in the movie Blood of My Blood, 2015, by Marco Bellocchio, and in 2016 she worked as Art Production Assistant in the movie Suspiria, by Luca Guadagnino.
Successively, she has been working on private residences as an Interior Design Architect for Luca Guadagnino.
In 2018, she moved to Tokyo, Japan, where she started working as an architect at Sou Fujimoto Architects.
In 2019, she received the highest scholarship from Columbia University in New York City, USA, to pursue an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design. During the summer semester, she was part of DeathLAB, after which she moved back to Tokyo, Japan, where she worked as an Architect Designer at Kengo Kuma & Associates.
In 2020-2021, she produced the artistic documentary Tokyo Toilets as the movie director of the duo Forma2. The film is about the incredible urbanistic project of 17 public toilets commissioned to the most famous designers and architects by the city of Tokyo, specifically in Shibuya. The documentary was screened at the 2021 Milano Design Film Festival, the NY Cinematography Awards, and the 2021 ARFF Amsterdam.
In 2021, she was invited as a guest of "Architecture Talk" for Virginia Tech by Professor Markus Breitschmid.
In 2021, she was also invited for a video interview as an architect/designer to Casa Italia, the Italian Pavilion for the 2020 Olympic Games. She was also invited as an international architect for a video interview on " L'Italia con Voi” by RAI Italia, which was screened internationally.
In 2022, she served as the moderator of Kizuki-au Collaborative Construction's panel, which took place at the Swiss Embassy in Japan, Tokyo. The project was an installation made by Zurich ETH Gramazio Kohler's research lab and the University of Tokyo T_ADS Obuchi lab during the 2022 Aichi Triennale.
She also moderated the Italian Design Day's panel at the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo, which featured the Italian Ambassador and five representatives of Italian Design.
In 2022, she curated the art exhibition Sound Sheels of the Shodo artist Maeda Kamariin in the church of Saint Cristina, Cesena, Italy, and she co-curated the art exhibition 1922-2022 "Fioravanti 100!"Ilario Fioravanti.
She was the curator and artist of TuorloBlue, an artistic project exploring food and culture, which was exhibited in 2022 at the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo for the VI edition of Italian Cuisine Week, supported by the Italian Embassy in Tokyo.
She moved to Italy in 2022 and worked as the Art, Communication, and Marketing Manager Director for an Italian luxury hotel group, ROMEO Collection (theromeocollection.com/en/). She was responsible for acquiring artworks and inviting contemporary artists to create site-specific works, launching the Collection with international media, and developing the ROMEO Collection's brand identity. Thereafter, for ROMEO Collection, she served as the curator and creator of publishing projects, including the Art Catalogue of ROMEO Roma and the Art Catalogue of ROMEO Napoli, as well as a city guide book for VIP hotel guests in Roma and Napoli.
She is currently working on Art and Architecture projects between Switzerland and Italy. She is also a freelance consultant for star architects’ firms. Since 2019, he has been writing critical essays on art, architecture, and design in the Italian magazine Graphie.