ANDREA POMPILI
ARCHITECT
ART DIRECTOR
ART + ARCHITECTURE CRITIC
Andrea Pompili (b. 1989, Cesena, Italy) is an architect, art director, and curator working across architecture, film, and visual culture between Switzerland and Italy.
She graduated with highest honors from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (USI, Switzerland) under Prof. Valerio Olgiati, and later received a full scholarship to pursue an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University GSAPP in New York.
Her professional experience spans leading international studios, including Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo and Kengo Kuma and Associates, where she contributed to major cultural and urban projects. Earlier, she worked at NADAAA, founded by Nader Tehrani.
Alongside architecture, she has developed a parallel practice in film and exhibition. She worked in film production on projects by Marco Bellocchio and Luca Guadagnino, and directed the documentary Tokyo Toilets (2020), screened at international festivals including the Milano Design Film Festival and the Amsterdam International Awards.
Her curatorial work includes exhibitions in Italy and Japan, as well as the project TuorloBlue, a research platform exploring the intersection of gastronomy, art, and architecture, presented at the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo.
From 2022, she served as Art, Communication and Marketing Director for ROMEO Collection, overseeing art acquisitions, artist commissions, and editorial publications for properties including ROMEO Roma, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Zaha Hadid—for which she was also in charge of interior design and the art catalogue (critical texts and graphic design)—and ROMEO Napoli, originally designed by Kenzo Tange.
Since 2024, she has founded her practice, AP architecture + art, in Basel, working across interior design, architecture, and curatorial projects. Since 2025, she has been Editor-in-Chief of Graphie, an Italian art and literature magazine.
She regularly lectures, moderates international panels, and contributes critical essays on art, architecture, and design.
She is currently engaged in architectural, curatorial, and editorial projects across Europe and beyond.