Anna Magrin
Job Title: Graduate Assistant
Institutional affiliation: Università Iuav di Venezia
Architect and PhD in Urbanism, Anna Magrin is researcher at Università Iuav di Venezia. Her research mainly focuses on history of European post-war urban transformations, with a special interest in urban-rural linkages, heritage conservation and social housing.
For the Triennale Milano she has curated the exhibitions “Il Bel Paese. 1 Progetto per 22.621 centri storici” (Milano 2017) and “Esportare il Centro Storico” (Milano-Brescia 2015) with Benno Albrecht, and has curated a section of “Africa Big Change Big Chance” (Milano 2014). For WHITRAP Shanghai she has curated the exhibition “Planning the Historic City. 1946-2000” (Shanghai 2018) with Benno Albrecht and Anna-Paola Pola.
She has been working for about ten years on sustainable processes and devices in architecture and urban planning. On these topics, she has written and edited volumes, published articles in journals and contributed book chapters both in Italy and abroad.
Publications
Albrecht, B., and A. Magrin, (Eds) . Il Bel Paese. 1 Progetto per 22.621 centri storici. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2017.
Albrecht, B., and A. Magrin. Durabilità e patrimonio. Eredità e futuro. Precisazioni di restauro urbano. Milano: Mimesis, 2017.
Albrecht, B., and A. Magrin (Eds). Esportare il Centro Storico, Rimini: Guaraldi Engramma 2015.
Magrin, A. “Conservation is a planning issues.” In Exporting the urban core, edited by B. Albrecht and A. Magrin. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2015.
Magrin, A. “Urban Africa. The city of mixed uses, the design of specialized space.” In Africa Big Change Big Change, edited by B. Albrecht. Bologna : Compositori Editore, 2014.