Sofia Boarino Architecture & Sound Art
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sofiaboarino@gmail.com
sofiaboarino@gmail.com
Sofia Boarino is an Italian architect, artist and researcher based in Zurich, working at the intersection of architecture, art and scientific research. Her interdisciplinary practice brings together neuroscience, acoustics, bioacoustics, light studies and multisensory perception to investigate how sound, light and other invisible physical phenomena shape space, embodied experience and our relationship with the environment. Through architectural and artistic projects, immersive installations, metaphotographic works, sound art and performance, she explores the physical and sensory dimensions of reality, approaching sound and light not only as perceptual phenomena but as materials capable of interacting with bodies, matter and space. Her work seeks to reveal and engage with the invisible forces that shape how environments are perceived, inhabited and experienced.
Boarino graduated in Architecture from the AAM-USI Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, where her thesis Hit the Beat received the Swiss Engineering Ticino Prize 2021. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Milano Design Week, Zurich Design Weeks and the Global Design Forum at the Victoria and Albert Museum during London Design Festival 2026. She has lectured at institutions and international programmes including ETH Zurich, IUAV Venice, AAM Mendrisio, PULSE–GLSN India and ACADIA USA.
Her current work includes Témenos/E-Motionfield, an immersive architectural environment combining sound, diffuse light and spatial perception to promote well-being within an educational setting in India, alongside upcoming projects at LOOP in Zurich, at Berlin Science Week 2026, and a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2027, where she will continue developing her research at the intersection of architecture, neuroscience and art.