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Anna Heringer (1977) was born in Rosenheim (Germany) and graduated from the Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz. As an architect and honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures and Sustainable Development, she focuses on the use of natural building materials. She has been actively involved in development cooperation in Bangladesh since 1997. Her diploma work, the METI School in Rudrapur, was built in 2005 and won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007. Over the years, Anna has realized further projects in Asia, Africa, and Europe. She lectures worldwide and has been a visiting professor at various universities, including Stuttgart, Linz, Vienna, Alghero. Since 2014 she has taught a design studio at the ETH Zürich together with Martin Rauch. She has received numerous honours, including the renowned Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards in 2006 and 2008, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and a RIBA International Fellowship. Her work has been widely published and exhibited in the MoMA New York, the V&A Museum and at the Venice Biennale among other places. In 2013 with Andres Lepik and Hubert Klumpner she initiated the Laufen Manifesto, where practitioners and academics from around the world contribute to define guidelines for a humane design culture.