Anna Dietzsch

Anna Dietzsch is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP. She is an architect and urban designer, who for the past 20 years has worked between São Paulo and New York, using design to promote interaction. Her portfolio includes the planning and design of significant projects, such as the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York, the Victor Civita Eco-Park and the Green Stream Linear Park in São Paulo, the Pop-up Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Sarah Lawrence College Master Plan and the urbanization of the third largest favela in São Paulo, Sao Francisco Global. Her participation in community projects include the “Open Street” program in São Paulo, the “Cultural Territory” initiative and the organization of the first “International Night Seminar,” bridging community voices to the public sector and the legislative branch. Her work has been published by Metropolis, Wallpaper, Archine, Topos, City Greens, AU and Projeto magazines. Her work has been acknowledged by The American Institute of Architects, The Brazilian Institute of Architects and the Young Architects Ibero-American Alliance. She is currently leading research on the urbanisation of the Amazon region and is principal at the design studio ArC – Arquitetura da Convivência. She also leads the Design for Six Feet Initiative with Kaja Kuhl and Liz McEnaney, an urban design laboratory started at the onset of the COVID pandemic. She has taught at City College, Escola da Cidade and NJIT.