antonio pio saracino

Design is everywhere.

Design is fundamental. Everything around us is designed and design decisions impact nearly every part of our lives. The designed environment is our environment and, for most of us, it is invisible: it is our ‘natural’ environment.

Artificial world acts and assumes its position reacting with us as if it were Nature itself. The Man-made world mimics the way the natural world behaves.

Architecture, product design, industrial design, transportation, communication products, clothing, and all the man-made world is continually evolving.

Contemporary Design responds to our presence and stimuli as a living entity, encouraging us to rethink our position in the environment.

This position has a double character: we feel enveloped in an environment as subjects and at the same, reacting with design, we perceive ourselves as objects.

Design is looking at us.

Nature generates itself.

The man-made world is generated from nature.

We extract materials from nature and we reorganize them through a new order that dares a new paradigm: an artificial world intended as a natural world.

The difference between natural and artificial entities has ceased to be fundamental.

The world we design is trending towards the natural becoming more artificial and the artificial more natural.

About the Ambassador Antonio Pio Saracino

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Antonio Pio Saracino is an architect and artist. Born in southern Italy in 1976, he works and lives between Rome and New York City. Saracino received his degree in architecture at the University of Rome "La Sapienza," where he was also an assistant professor of design. From 2002-2004, he worked in the studios of Massimiliano Fuksas and IAN+ in Rome and Archi-tectonics in New York. Since 1999, he has been included in several art exhibitions and has been published both as an architect and an artist in various international magazines.

In 2004, he co-founded ArchLAB, an experimental design studio based in New York City, www.archlabstudio.com. With archLAB he has won various international design awards and his work has been featured in exhibitions at ICFF NYC, NEOCON Chicago, and at the Center Gallery at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in NYC. His Tibi boutique project in soho, has been featured, in the best of the year of 2007 issue, in the New York's Interior Design magazine. He has been awarded of the prestigious 2007 American Architecture Award, from the Chicago Atheneum and the Chicago Museum of Architecture.

In 2006 Saracino's artwork is included in the museum exhibition, Mythos, curated by Renato Miracco, traveling through various cities in the Mediterranean. Winner of the art competition "Agorafolly" for the Europalia Europa Art Festival 2007/2008 in Brussels, Belgium, Saracino's installation represents Italy in an open-air art installation featuring one artist from each of the 27 countries of the European Union. In Brussels, his artwork was selected as the iconic symbol for the show: Agorafolly Inside Outside, the Museum Exhibition of the new generation of contemporary art in Europe. In September 2007 he has been named as one of the world's 25 most interesting trendsetters by New York 's ARTnews magazine.