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 Academy of Architecture, USI, Switzerland with Prof. Arch.Valerio Olgiati and with a Theoretical Paper The New Centrality of Canary Wharf. London’s Waterfront Neo-Tertiary Trasformation with Prof. Arch. Joseph Acebillo.

 

During her University carreer, in 2012 she worked as 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 Teaching Assistant of Prof. Marco Müller (Director of multiple Film Festivals as Venice, Rome, Rotterdam, Locarno) for Style and Techniques of Cinema, MSc 1 class at Academy of Architecture, USI.

She has been Assistant for Filming Architecture 2016 and 2017 workshop with guests Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine, and Heinz Emigholz.

In film industry, she has worked as Production Designer Assistant in the movie Blood of My Blood, 2015 by Marco Bellocchio and in 2016 she has worked as Art Production Assistant in the movie Suspiria, by Luca Guadagnino.

Sucessively, she has been working on private residences as Interior Design Architect for

Luca Guadagnino.

 

In 2018 she moved to Tokyo, Japan where she started working as architect at Sou Fujimoto Architects

In 2019 she received the highest scholarship by Columbia University,New York City, USA to attend a Master 2 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 Architect Designer at Kengo Kuma & Associates.

 

In 2020-2021 she produced as movie director of the duo Forma2 the artistic documentary Tokyo Toilets, a film about the incredible urbanistic project of 17 public toilets commisioned to the most famous designers and architects by the city of Tokyo, Shibuya. The documentary was screened at 2021 Milano Design Film Festival, NY Cinematography Awards, 2021 ARFF Amsterdam.

 

In 2021 she was invited as guest of "Architecture Talk" for  Virginia Tech, by Professor Markus Breitschmid.

 

In 2021 she was also invited for a video interview as architects/designer to Casa Italia, the Italian Pavilion for the 2020 Olympic Game. She was also invited as international architect for a video interview for L'Italia con Voi, by RAI Italia, that was screened internationally.

 

In 2022, she was the moderator of Kizuki-au Collaborative Construction's panel that took place at the Residence of the Embassy od Switzerland in Japan, Tokyo. The project was an installation made by Zurich ETH Gramazio Kohler's research lab and 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 that guested the Italian Ambassador and five representative of Italian Design.

 

In 2022 she curated the art exhibition Conchiglie Sonore 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!"I lario Fioravanti.

 

She was the curator and artist of TuorloBlue, an artistic project about food and culture that was exhibited in 2022 at the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo for the VI edition of the Italian Cuisine Week, supported by the Italian Embassy in Tokyo. 

 

She moved to Italy in 2022 and she worked as Art, Communication & Marketing Manager Director for an italian luxury hotel group - ROMEO Alberghi (theromeocollection.com/en/). She was in charge of building the brand identity and involved into pr international media events. She was also involved with the interior design and art collections of ROMEO Roma - a luxury hotel designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Thereafter, for ROMEO Alberghi she was the curator and creator of publishing projects such as the Art Catalogue of ROMEO Roma, the Art Catalogue of ROMEO Napoli, Roma and Napoli city guide book fot VIP hotels guest. 

 

She is currently working on Art and Architecture projects. She is also a free lance consultant for star architects firms. 

Since 2018, he has been writing critical essays on art, architecture and disign in the Italian magazine Graphie