Jeannette Sordi

Jeannette Sordi is an architect and urban planner based in New York City. She works as an external consultant for the Inter-american Development Bank division of Housing and Urban Development and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at NYIT. Until 2018, she was Associate Professor of Landscape and Urbanism at Adolfo Ibañez University in Santiago de Chile. Sordi earned a PhD in Urban Planning and Design from the University of Genoa (2013) and was a Doctoral Visiting Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2011- 2012). Her main publications include the books Beyond Urbanism (List, 2014; Sacabana, 2017, Spanish edition), Andrea Branzi. From Radical Design to Post-Environmentalism (ARQ, 2015), The Camp and the City. Territories of Extraction (List, 2017), Part-time Cities (ARQ, 2018), Ness.Docs.2. Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas (Ness, 2020) and the forthcoming Ecological Design. Strategies for the Vulnerable City (IaDB, 2021). In 2017 she co-curated the XX Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile.

Education

• Doctor of Design Special Student Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011 — 2012)
• Laurea Università degli Studi di Genova (2003 — 2009)
• erasmus TU Wien (2006 — 2007)

Companies

• Adjunct Professor of Urban Design, Architecture NYC Program School of Architecture at Syracuse University (2021)
• Adjunct Associate Professor New York Institute of Technology (2019)
• External Consultant Inter-American Development Bank (2019)
• Associate Researcher Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2018)
• Associate Professor Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2014 — 2019)
• Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning - Fondamenti di Urbanistica Genoa Polytechnic School (2013 — 2015)
• Post Doc Research Fellow Genoa Polytechnic School (2013 — 2014)
• DAAD award for academics and young scientists Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany (2014 — 2014)
• PhD Scholar university of Genoa, Polytechnic School (2010 — 2013)

Publications

Books

• Jeannette Sordi, Felipe Vera. Ecological Design. Strategies for the Vulnerable City. Adapting Precarious Areas in Latin America and the Caribbean to Climate Change. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. English and Spanish editions.

• Mercedes Peralta, Florencia Rodriguez, Jeannette Sordi (eds.). Paisaje como Urbanismo en las Americas. PLOT Special Edition, 2021.

• Mercedes Peralta, Florencia Rodriguez, Jeannette Sordi (eds.). Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas. –Ness Docs n.2, 2020.

• Jeannette Sordi, Serena Dambrosio. Part-Time Cities. A Survey of the Chilean Central Coast. Santiago: ARQ, 2019. (English and Spanish edition)

• Jeannette Sordi. Mas Allá del Urbanismo. De Paisaje a Ecologia: Genealogía de una Teoría. Trento-Santiago: Listlab-Sacabana, 2017.

• Jeannette Sordi, Luis Valenzuela, Felipe Vera. The Camp & the City. Territories of Extraction. Trento; Barcelona: Listlab, 2017.

• Jeannette Sordi (ed.). Ecologías Emergentes. Santiago de Chile: SaCabana (in Spanish), 2016.

• Jeannette Sordi, Felipe Vera (eds.). Andrea Branzi. From Radical Design to PostEnvironmentalism. Santiago: Arq, 2015 (Spanish and English).

• Jeannette Sordi. Beyond Urbanism. Trento: ListLab, 2014.