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Andreas Faoro (Principal of UNLAB, Architect and Urban designer) Short bio Andreas Faoro is an architect and urban planner. After graduating at the IUAV University of Architecture of Venice, he obtained a Postgraduate Master degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. His theoretical and practical work focuses on the relationship between, politics, economy and large-‐scale urban design, exploring the disputed, conflicting and often paradoxical transformation of cities and urban environments. Since 2003 Andreas has collaborated with different international architectural offices (Stefano Boeri Architetti -‐ Italy, Fritz van Dongen -‐ the Netherlands, StudioEU -‐ Berlin -‐Germany, LAN office, OFFICE KGDVS Brussels, Christophe Cornubert (OMA), IND (International Design). Next to the professional activity he has experience in teaching architecture and urban design programs in different Universities and Cultural Institutions. Parallel to the design projects, he is intensely engaged with, writing, and research, activities that are an integral part of his engagement with architecture and urbanism. Andreas is also active in offering consultancies to municipalities and agencies concerned with urban planning and architectural issues. His professional experience has moved across a broad range of scales and disciplines including design, architecture and urban planning. He has taken part as coordinator, project manager and scientific advisor in several European projects, EU-‐ROMA (EUropean Roma Mapping), W.S.E. (Welfare Space Europe), EURO.P.A. (EUROpean Public Art-‐chitecture project) and EU-‐CITY a project developed with Winy Mass, and the Why Factory (TUDelft), partially exhibited at the Biennale of Venice 2012). In 2004 he co-‐founded UNLAB together with Francesca Rizzetto (UrbaN Landscape Architecture Bureau) an international practice based in Rotterdam (NL), with offices in Italy and Tirana (AL), practicing and developing a wide knowledge on design, architecture as well as large-‐scale projects, collaborating with an extensive network of Public and Private Institutions. The office gained renown through key projects such as New York City Tower, Expo Park Project (Taranto, Italy), Osumi Island Berat, Faith Park Tirana, General Local Plan Tirana (UNLAB -‐ Andreas Faoro as leader and coordinator of the Joint Venture with SBA-‐ Stefano Boeri Architetti). UNLAB has been rewarded with different international prizes for the architectural projects, while it has recently engaged in the development of strategic visions, plans, and projects for city and urban regions such as Municipality of Amsterdam (6th Haven) and the City-‐Port of Rotterdam. In 2014, UNLAB has been awarded by UNHabitat and UIA (International Union of Architects) with the First Prize (NL) for the Mass/Public/Social Housing International Competition, presented and exhibited at the 7th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF7, April 5-‐11 / 2014) in Medellín (Colombia). UNLAB projects have been published in various webzines, magazines and exhibited worldwide. Recently Andreas Faoro works has been exhibited at the Louisiana museum in Denmark: Frontiers of Architecture III-‐IV Living (2011), in France at the 10th Biennale de Lyon: “Le spectacle du quotidian” (2009) and the Biennale of Cinema in Venice.
