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design critic and curator

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Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a Basel-based design critic and curator. She serves in a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles, most recently as program coordinator for the multidisciplinary research initiative Driving the Human (2020-2023) and curator of the initial edition of architecture festival Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse (2021). She is co-curator of TEOK Basel and one half of the curatorial initiative Foreign Legion. Sacchetti was associate curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, A School of Schools, curatorial advisor for the BIO 50 Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and, as part of editorial consultancy Superscript, headed the “Towards a New Avant-Garde” event series at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has recently edited Design as a Tool for Transition: The Atelier Luma Approach; and Design As Learning: A School of Schools Reader. Her writing has appeared in Disegno, Metropolis, and The Avery Review, among others. Sacchetti teaches at ETH Zurich and HEAD Geneva, and in 2020 joined the Federal Design Commission of Switzerland.

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Tag: Architecture Australia

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, 2020Categories Architecture, EssayTags Architecture Australia, Nicholas Burns
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