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design critic and curator

Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a Basel-based design critic and curator. She specializes in contemporary design and architecture and serves in a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles. She is currently program coordinator of the multidisciplinary research initiative Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-social Renewal (2020-2023), and co-initiator of the Design and Democracy platform (2020–). Sacchetti teaches at HEAD Geneva, and in 2020 joined the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.

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Australian architecture abroad

Very happy to have contributed a review to the most recent issue of Architecture Australia. I wrote about a Chapel and meditation room in the north of Portugal, designed by architect Nicholas Burns. The building made it to the cover, which was a nice surprise!

Posted on January 29, 2020March 29, 2020Author VeraCategories Architecture, EssayTags Architecture Australia, Nicholas Burns

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