Biography

Annalisa Metta is a Landscape Architect and co-founder of OS/A. She earned her Ph.D. in the Architecture of Parks, Gardens, and Land Use. She is an associate professor in Landscape Architecture at Roma Tre University. Throughout her career, Annalisa continues the development of her own experimental research and architectural theory that deals with the design of open spaces at a variety of scales. She authored several publications, including WildandTheCity.LandscapeArchitectureforLushUrbanism and “The Case of the Pontine Plain” (ref. page 31). Additionally, she has given many seminars and lectures internationally wherein she presents her work and progressive architectural research and landscape theory. A couple of Annalisa’s lectures include “A Matter of Bodies and Atmosphere” (given at the American Academy in Rome in 2016/ref. pages 26-27) and “Between Mud and Cosmos: Landscape as an Agent” (given at Kent State Florence CAED in 2022 following the interview).

OS/A (OPEN SPACE / ARCHITECTURE) is a design studio, founded in 2021 from the previous experience of Osa architettura e paesaggio, already established in Rome in 2007. OS/A deals mainly with the design of open spaces, elaborating projects for parks of various kinds and scales, public and private gardens, squares, playgrounds and urban spaces, temporary installations, recovery of historical gardens, archaeological and monumental areas, infrastructures, reclamation of abandoned or under reconversion industrial sites. Its focus is landscape as an agent, in relation with the behaviours of human and not human beings.

AN INTERVIEW WITH FLORENCE 2022