Andrea Cadioli is a designer architect operating in the field of applied and theoretical arts.
Born in Italy, he worked as a musician and tv presenter for EMI and MTV before moving to Beijing to complete his master studies with a double degree program in partnership with Polytechnic of Turin and Tsinghua University. In 2016 is the winning recipient of the 2016 European Union Scholarship for the Master program of Southern California Institute of Architecture. His master thesis won the SCI-Arc Thesis Award and, in the same year, he became the 2018 Alpha Rho Chi medal recipient. His work has been exhibited in Hauser & Wirth, MOCA, and Venice Biennale.
After working for Graft Architects, Plasma Studio, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Atelier Manferdini, and HMC Architects, Andrea Cadioli is currently Visual Study faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and Designer at Belzberg Architects.
Born in Italy, he worked as a musician and tv presenter for EMI and MTV before moving to Beijing to complete his master studies with a double degree program in partnership with Polytechnic of Turin and Tsinghua University. In 2016 is the winning recipient of the 2016 European Union Scholarship for the Master program of Southern California Institute of Architecture. His master thesis won the SCI-Arc Thesis Award and, in the same year, he became the 2018 Alpha Rho Chi medal recipient. His work has been exhibited in Hauser & Wirth, MOCA, and Venice Biennale.
After working for Graft Architects, Plasma Studio, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Atelier Manferdini, and HMC Architects, Andrea Cadioli is currently Visual Study faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and Designer at Belzberg Architects.
Teaching
- 2024, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, BArch Applied Studies Fall - “Design Development”
- 2024, Workshop - SIVA Shanghai, M.Arch Fall- “New Worlds”
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2023, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Applied Studies Summer - “Revit Folly”
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2023, Workshop - SCI-Arc, B.Arch - “Portfolio Workshop”
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2023, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Applied Studies Spring - “Revit Folly”
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2023, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies - “Portfolio Workshop”
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2022, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies - “AlterNature”
- 2022, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies with Kumaran Parthiban - “Portfolio Workshop”
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2021, Workshop - SCI-Arc, Making+Meaning - “Portfolio Workshop”
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2021, Design Faculty - SCI-Arc, First-Year Graduate Studio (1GB) with Matthew Au, Jasmine Benyamin, and Natou Fall - “Building Pico Boulevard”
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2021, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies - “Arrangements”
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2021, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies - “Portfolio Workshop”
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2021, Workshop - DEZACT/LAC in collaboration with SCI-Arc with Elena Manferdini and Kumaran Parthiban - “POP-UP”
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2021, Workshop - DEZACT/LAC in collaboration with SCI-Arc with Elena Manferdini and Kumaran Parthiban - “Playground”
- 2021, Workshop - Studio Alpha in collaboration with SCI-Arc with Elena Manferdini and Kumaran Parthiban - “Unreal”
- 2020, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch I Visual Studies with Devyn Weiser- “Meubles”
- 2020, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, Introduction to Digital Design with Rachael Mccall - Graduate and Post-Graduate Workshop - “Somewhere Over the Overlay”
- 2020, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies - “Portfolio Workshop”
- 2020, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies with Elena Manferdini - “Invisible”
- 2019, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies with Curime Batliner - “Slice It”
- 2019, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, Introduction to Digital Design with Rachael Mccall - Graduate and Post-Graduate Workshop - “House of HyperPop”
- 2019, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies - “Portfolio Workshop”
- 2019, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies with Elena Manferdini - “Glow”
- 2018, Design Studio - SCI-Arc, MArch II Visual Studies with Casey Rehm - “Hyper Flat”
- 2018, Design Studio - SCI-Arc in collaboration with Nike, MArch II Applied Studies with Howard Lichter - “Nike Project”
- 2018, Teaching Assistant - SCI-Arc, MArch II Theories of Contemporary Architecture with Jeremy Lecomte - “Is There Plumbing?”
- 2018, Teaching Assistant - SCI-Arc, First-Year Design Studio in the M.Arch II (2GBX) with Elena Manferdini - taught Maya, Zbrush, Unity, and Grasshopper - “Typologies over Topologies”
- 2017, Teaching Assistant - SCI-Arc, First-Year M.Arch II Applied Studies with Maxi Spina - taught Grasshopper and McNeel Rhinoceros - “Advanced Structural Systems”
- 2017, Teaching Assistant - SCI-Arc, Introduction to Digital Design with Rachael Mccall and Ryan Tyler Martinez - Graduate and Post-Graduate Workshop - taught Autodesk Maya, V-Ray, and McNeel Rhinoceros - “Portraits of Edible Form”
Lectures
- Nasa India - Lecture.
Nasa India, Mumbai, India. - 2022, Thunghai Architecture - Any Talk.
Tunghai University, Taiwan, Taiwan. - 2022, Graduate Portfolio Workshop.
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California - 2021, Making+Meaning Workshop Lecture.
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California - 2021, DEL Additional Lecture - What Game Engines Can Do? From Architecture / Media / Film
CRTKL Architecture, New York, NY. -
2021, SCI-Arc Graduate Portfolio Workshop.
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California - 2021, 1GX Xover Lecture.
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California - 2020, SCI-Arc Graduate Portfolio Workshop.
Archimedia, Los Angeles, California - 2019, Faculty Talk: Andrea Cadioli: Weak Postures.
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California
Invited Reviews
- Florencia Pita 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 10/25/2024 - William Virgil Thesis Graduate Midterm Reivew - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 08/09/2024 - Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Gradduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 09/25/2024 - Jacklin Bloom 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 04/18/2024 - Elena Manferini Thesis Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 03/04/2024 - Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 10/24/2022 -
Pietro Scarpa 1st year Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg, Netherlands. 01/10/2022 -
Marcelyn Gow Design Theory & Pedagogy - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 02/16/2022 -
Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 10/22/2021 -
Making+Meaning Final Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 07/30/2021 -
Zelig Fox 3rd Year Undergraduate Design Studio Final Review - Guest Critic
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. 04/28/2021 -
Brendan Ho 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. 03/30/2021 -
Jacklin Bloom 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. 03/05/2021 -
Rachael McCall 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Final Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 12/18/2020 -
Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Final Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 12/16/2020 -
Kristy Balliet 1st Year Undergraduate Design Studio Final Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 12/14/2020 -
Florencia Pita 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 10/30/2020 -
Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 10/19/2020 -
Florencia Pita Graduate Thesis 2020 Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 07/02/2020 -
Elena Manferdini 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 03/06/2020 -
CityX China for Venice Biennale - Italian Pavilio
Cityxchina.com, Venice, Italy, 05/21/2020 -
Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 10/21/2019 -
Rachael McCall 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Final Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 11/09/2019 -
Angelica Lorenzi 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, 11/09/2018 -
Elena Manferdini 2nd Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture. 10/26/2018 -
Casey Rehm 1st Year Graduate Design Studio Midterm Review - Guest Critic
Southern California Institute of Architecture, 10/08/2018
Exhibitions
- K41cph, 2023, Impossible Objects, Copenhagen (DENMARK)
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Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2021, Venice (IT)
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K41cph, 2021, Copenhagen (DENMARK)
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SCI-Arc Spring Show, 2019, Los Angeles (CA)
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SCI-Arc Selected Thesis, 2018, Los Angeles (CA)
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Miniatures at Hauser & Wirth, 2018, Los Angeles (CA)
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SCI-Arc Spring Show, 2018, Los Angeles (CA)
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SCI-Arc Spring Show, 2017, Los Angeles (CA)
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The Future of Brno - Finalist Exhibition, 2016, Brno (CZ)
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Beijing Design Week, 2014, Beijing (CN)
Awards and Achievements
- Young Architects Program MoMA New York 2019: Nominee, New York (NY)
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SCI-Arc Merit Graduate Thesis 2018, Los Angeles (CA)
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SCI-Arc Graduation with Distinction 2018, Los Angeles (CA)
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Alpha Ro Chi Medal 2018 recipient, Los Angeles (CA)
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Los Angeles Design Festival RISE Award Recipient 2018, Los Angeles (CA)
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SCI-Arc Continuing Scholarship 2017, Los Angeles (CA)
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Thom Mayne Scholarship 2017, Los Angeles (CA)
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SCI-Arc European Union Scholarship 2016, Los Angeles (CA)
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Tsinghua University Master Graduate Continuing Scholarship, 2015, Beijing (CN)
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Tsinghua University Master Graduate Scholarship, 2014, Beijing (CN)
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Polytechnic of Turin and Tsinghua University Double Degree Programme selected, 2014, Turin (IT)