Biography

Anna Pagani is an Italian architect and PhD candidate (C. Binder, HERUS).

She studies since the age of 4 in the international environment of the Lycée Français Jean Giono in Torino, allowing her to speak, today, 6 languages.

Passionate about sustainability and social sciences, in 2015 she graduates cum laude in Architecture and Building Engineering at both Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano in Italy. She obtains a Double-Master Degree for technology talents (ASP-Alta Scuola Politecnica) with a multidisciplinary thesis about the Turin Energy Centre.
During her academic carreer she is the winner of three European Union scholarships, allowing her to study in international universities such as UPC Barcelona and EPFL Lausanne. Her Master Thesis entitled “Hutongs-Transformation: A Battle Between Memories” (2015) is awarded with honors and evaluated “worthy of mention” by the Politecnico di Torino. The project is presented both as a lecture in SHS (EPFL Lausanne) and at the International workshop Architecture and Resistance, Lasur (ENAC), Iags (CdH), EPFL.

As part of a larger research project started in January 2016, in October 2016 Anna is the curator of the seminar “Chinese New TOwns: negotiating citizenship and physical form” at the Beijing Design Week 2016.

In 2017 Anna works as architect for DEDODESIGN, a sino-italian architectural and design firm based in Shanghai, which focuses on sustainable architecture projects. In March 2017 she is the organizer of an international workshop in partnership with East China Normal University (ECNU), Food Innovation Global Mission (FIGB), Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Italian Consulate of Shanghai.

Passionate about writing and art, Anna has published on the Italian Review Edizioni Zero, il Giornale dell’Architettura, as well as Babylon.