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title: "about"
description: "about karim gabriele varano"
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my name is karim gabriele varano. i grew up in the rhine valley of st. gallen. before architecture, i worked in electrical engineering, on site and in planning. i went to design school, and from there into architecture studies at ost and hslu. i hold a ba in architecture and i'm currently working towards my master's. what draws me to architecture is its depth. it moves between the weight of a material and the weight of a social crisis. it borrows from engineering, sociology, art, politics. it is not a science. it is where sciences meet, and where that meeting has to result in something real and inhabitable.

i'm open to collaborations in architecture. if you're building something, [let's talk](mailto:hi@karimgabrielevarano.xyz).

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  <dt>location</dt><dd>lucerne, switzerland</dd>
  <dt>degree</dt><dd>ba architecture</dd>
  <dt>status</dt><dd>ma in progress</dd>
  <dt>available</dt><dd>architecture collaborations · commissions · open-source</dd>
  <dt>email</dt><dd><a href="mailto:hi@karimgabrielevarano.xyz">hi@karimgabrielevarano.xyz</a></dd>
  <dt>studio</dt><dd><a href="/studio/">studio</a></dd>
  <dt>open</dt><dd><a href="/openbureau/">openbureau</a></dd>
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