Antonio Pio Saracino is an Italian-born architect and designer based in New York City. In 2003, Saracino graduated cum laude with a master’s degree in architecture from Rome’s “La Sapienza” University of Architecture, where he worked as an assistant professor of architectural design. That same year he became a licensed Architect in Italy. After graduation he worked with several Italian and U.S. architectural firms, including Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome. Saracino has designed buildings, monuments and products in different industries. His work is part of the permanent collections at several museums, including: the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Since 2004, Saracino has collaborated with New York architect Steve Blatz on competitions, interior design and conceptual projects such as the Seed House in upstate New York. The pod-shaped residence received an American Architecture Award in 2007 from the Chicago Athenaeum and Museum of Architecture. Their design work for the Tibi boutique in SoHo was featured in Interior Design’s “Best of the Year” issue and the “Global Shop” section of Wallpaper*. Saracino is a four-time winner of Interior Design’s Future Furniture design competition was named one of the world’s “25 most interesting trendsetters” by ARTnews and was recognized as one of the “Top Ten Italian Architects Under 36” by New Italian Blood.
Antonio Pio Saracino
Architect New York / United States
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Antonio Pio Saracino is an Italian-born architect and designer based in New York City. In 2003, Saracino graduated cum laude with a master’s degree in architecture from Rome’s “La Sapienza” University of Architecture, where he worked as an assistant professor of architectural design. That same year he became a licensed Architect in Italy. After graduation he worked with several Italian and U.S. architectural firms, including Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome.
Saracino has designed buildings, monuments and products in different industries. His work is part of the permanent collections at several museums, including: the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Art and Design in New York and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Since 2004, Saracino has collaborated with New York architect Steve Blatz on competitions, interior design and conceptual projects such as the Seed House in upstate New York. The pod-shaped residence received an American Architecture Award in 2007 from the Chicago Athenaeum and Museum of Architecture. Their design work for the Tibi boutique in SoHo was featured in Interior Design’s “Best of the Year” issue and the “Global Shop” section of Wallpaper*.
Saracino is a four-time winner of Interior Design’s Future Furniture design competition was named one of the world’s “25 most interesting trendsetters” by ARTnews and was recognized as one of the “Top Ten Italian Architects Under 36” by New Italian Blood.
