Background
Berrizbeitia was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Anita Berrizbeitia
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Education
She attended the College of Architecture and Urbanism at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, a public institution known for its science and technology orientation.
Career
She continues to play an integral role in the renewed visibility of landscape architecture as a cultural practice. She is currently Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Prior to coming to Harvard University she was the associate chair of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1980, she received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, and in 1987 earned an M.L.A. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Berrizbeitia contributed to several award-winning projects while practicing as a landscape architect with Childs Associates, Incorporated., in Boston, from 1987 to 1993. Large scale projects in which she participated include North Link Park in Battery Park City and Doctorate.W. Field Park in Brockton, Massachusetts.
lieutenant is for her contributions to design theories of the modern and contemporary landscape, however, for which she is most recognized. Teaching has been an integral component to the development of her ideas, beginning with an Assistant Professorship of Landscape Architecture at Harvard (1993-1998) and continuing as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, which she joined in 1998 until 2010.
In 2005, she was awarded the Rome Prize.
Berrizbeitia currently is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as of July 2015, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Prior to her appointment at Harvard she was Associate Department Chair of Landscape Architecture and an Associate Professor at UPenn.
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