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Anna Heringer

Germany / Austria

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Born in 1977 she graduated from the Universität für Künstlerische und Industrielle Gestaltung Linz in 2004. As an architect and honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures, and Sustainable development she is focussing 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 realized in 2005 and won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007. Over the years, she 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. From 2014 to 2016 she taught a design studio at the ETH Zürich together with Martin Rauch. She received numerous honours, including the renowned Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s GSD, the AR Emerging Architecture Awards in 2006 and 2008, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and a RIBA International Fellowship. Her work was 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 contributed to define guidelines for a humane design culture.

Village Development, Rudrapur (Bangladesh), 2004-2018, photo by courtesy of Anna Heringer

PORET Nursery School, Zimbabwe, 2013-2015. © Photo by Margarethe Holzer

Bamboo Hostels, Baoxi (China), 2013-2016. © Photo by Julien Lanoo

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