Andrea Faraguna (b. 1981) is an architect, he studied architecture at Università Iuav di Venezia, where he received a master’s degree in 2006 and a doctorate in 2017. From 2010 to 2018, he taught at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, first with Francesco Venezia and later with Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert of the studio E2A. In 2017, he and Niklas Bildstein Zaar cofounded the Berlin-based architecture office Sub.
Sub translates sociocultural dynamics into sensorially complex environments. Synthesizing visuals, research, technology, and architecture, the office involves practitioners from a range of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds to create projects that vary in duration and scale. Their multifaceted, world-building approach combines emerging technologies and semantic analysis with traditional architectural techniques, adding a rich layer of versatility to their creative endeavors across commercial, cultural, and entertainment environments.
Exemplary of Sub’s agenda are the following projects: the Museum of the History of the Tragedy, designed for the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Kyiv; Balenciaga Couture Headquarters on Avenue George V, Paris; and the exhibition design for Anne Imhof’s Natures Mortes at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
