Silvia Benedito is a registered landscape architect, architect and urban designer whose work foregrounds spatial experience, bioclimatic strategies and nature-based solutions. She earned her PhD from the University of Coimbra, focusing on thermodynamically driven strategies for thermal protection across different climatic regions and scales. Benedito has taught for nearly 15 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she advances curricula and design strategies for climate and landscape resilience, nutrient circularity and community-based practices. She has served as a visiting professor at the TU München, TU Graz, University of Algarve, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Benedito is the co-founder of OFICINAA, based in Lisbon and Ingolstadt, known for integrating climate design, beauty, and biodiversity protection in collaboration with local communities. The work has been recognised and exhibited in various venues, including the New European Bauhaus (NEB), Princeton University, the Europan Competition, the American Architecture Prize, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Key projects include Stadt Park-Donau in Ingolstadt, an ongoing large-scale urban park published in Landscape Tunings: An Urban Park at the Danube (ACTAR, 2016).
“There may have been fogs for centuries in London … But no one saw them, and so we do not know anything about them. They did not exist till Art had invented them.” — Wilde, Oscar. “The Decay of Lying.” In Intentions. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891. “I like to think that […]
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