BIG landscape architect fronts NZILA webinar
BIG Landscape Architecture (Bjarke Ingels Group) partner Giulia Frittoli is set to speak to New Zealand landscape architects next week.
Giulia, who has been with BIG since 2017, has a multi-disciplinary background in urban design, architecture and landscape architecture.
She will be the next presenter in the NZILA Streetscape Webinar series on March 11 - you can find more information here.
Giulia Frittoli is a partner with BIG in Copenhagen. Image credit - BIG.
Giulia was made a BIG partner last year and is seen as an instrumental leader within the business. She moved to BIG Copenhagen in 2020 after three years with the company in New York.
She led the proposal for Toyota Woven City. LAA did a piece on this project in 2020. The project investigated how recent technologies will shape the future of cities in regard to new forms of mobility, sustainability, ecology and human connectivity.
Giulia Frittoli led the BIG proposal for the Toyota Woven City. Image credit - BIG.
When Giulia first joined BIG in 2017 it was as project lead for the design of Islais Hyper-Creek proposal for the Resilient by Design competition, exploring solutions to adapt and protect the Bay Area from rain flooding, rising sea levels, and other environmental risks. You can see a video about that work, below.
BIG says her approach “brings focus to urban and natural systems, questioning and rethinking the traditional approach to landscape and city planning.”
The Downtown Brooklyn Public Realm project. Image credit - BIG.
Other relevant work by Giulia includes the masterplan for the Coliseum Arena in Oakland; the masterplan for Ravenswood Waterfront in East Palo Alto; and the Vision Plan for Downtown Brooklyn Public Realm. LAA covered the Downtown Brooklyn project in 2020.
Before working at BIG, Giulia worked for four years as a Landscape Designer and Urban Planner for the Dutch firm West 8. She received her Masters Degree with honours from the Polytechnic University of Milan.
