Anita Berrizbeitia
Professor of Landscape Architecture

On leave for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
Anita Berrizbeitia is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on design theories of modern and contemporary landscape architecture, the productive aspects of landscapes, and Latin American cities and landscapes. She was awarded the 2005/2006 Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, she studied architecture at the Universidad Simon Bolivar before receiving a BA from Wellesley College and an MLA from the GSD.
Berrizbeitia has taught design theory and studio, most recently at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where she was Associate Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her studios investigate innovative approaches to the conceptualization of public space, especially on sites where urbanism, globalization, and local cultural conditions intersect. She also leads seminars that focus on significant transformations in landscape discourse over the last three decades. From 1987 to 1993, she practiced with Child Associates, Inc., in Boston, where she collaborated on many award-winning projects.
She is co-author, with Linda Pollak, of Inside/Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape (Rockport, 1999), which won an ASLA Merit Award; author of Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956-1961 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), awarded the J.B. Jackson Book Prize in 2007 from the Foundation for Landscape Studies; and editor of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes (Yale University Press, 2009), which received an ASLA Honor Award. Her essays have been published in Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens (Princeton Architectural Press), Recovering Landscape (Princeton Architectural Press), Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected (Princeton Architectural Press), CASE: Downsview Park Toronto (Prestel), Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press), Retorno al Paisaje (Evren), and Hargreaves Associates: Landscape Alchemy (ORO Publishers), as well as in magazines such as A+U.
Courses
Publications
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Publics
Anita Berrizbeitia, Diane Davis, Toni L. Griffin, Daniel D'Oca, Sara Zewde, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Malkit Shoshan, George Thomas, Susan Snyder, Alex Krieger and Silvia Benedito
January 2022
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Fallowscapes: Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles
Anita Berrizbeitia, Marc Armengaud and Matthias Armengaud, Instructors
January 2021
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Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes
By Michael Van Valkenburgh
Edited by Anita BerrizbeitiaJune 2009
News
Exhibitions
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First the Forests
Anita Berrizbeitia and Gunther Vogt, Curators
JAN 20 – MAR 15, 2020
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Mountains and the Rise of Landscape
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Edward Eigen, Michael Jakob and Anita Berrizbeitia, Curators
JAN 22 – MAR 10, 2019
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Designing Planes and Seams
Anita Berrizbeitia, Curator
FEB 1 – MAR 15, 2017
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Between Form and Circumstance: Rethinking the Contemporary Landscape
Anita Berrizbeitia, Curator
APR 3 – MAY 24, 2006
Events
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Harvard Design Magazine #49: “Publics” Issue Launch and Conversation
Edited by Anita Berrizbeitia and Diane Davis
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Sierra Bainbridge and Lisa Tziona Switkin, “Growth and Grit: Cultivating a Life’s Work”
Anita Berrizbeitia, Host
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Sheila Foster, “Co-Cities: Reimagining the City as a Commons”
Anita Berrizbeitia, Host
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Seth Denizen, “Thinking Through Soil: Case Study from the Mezquital Valley”
Seth Denizen, Lecturer
Anita Berrizbeitia, Host -
Everett L. Fly, “American Cultural Landscapes: Black Roots and Treasures”
Anita Berrizbeitia, Host