Paola Sturla

Paola Sturla is a lecturer in Landscape Architecture and the 2018/2019 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at Politecnico di Milano in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. Born and raised in Italy, Paola is a registered “architetto” and “paesaggista.” She is currently a full-time researcher working on the designer’s creative agency to address open-ended problems through the hermeneutic design process, and the potentials and limits of Artificial Intelligence-based tools in such a practice. Before entering academia, she had been practicing internationally in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in the framework of large scale infrastructure projects. Paola holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture (Politecnico di Milano, 2004), a Master in Architecture (Politecnico di Milano, 2007), and a Master in Landscape Architecture (Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2011).

Research Areas

• Ecology
• Environmental Systems
• Infrastructure
• Practice
• Representation
• Responsive Environments
• Risk & Resilience
• Sensory Media
• Smart Cities

Companies

• Lecturer in Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2018)
• 2018-19 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2018)
• Ph.D. candidate Politecnico di Milano (2017)
• Senior Consultant Learn More (2017)
• Freelance Architect and Landscape Designer Freelance (2011 — 2017)
• Professore a contratto in landscape design Politecnico di Milano (2013 — 2017)
• Senior Architect - Landscape Architecture discipline leader One Works (2014 — 2016)
• Senior Designer Ballistic Architecture Machine (2012 — 2012)
• landscape architecture studio instructor for career discovery 2011 Harvard GSD (2011 — 2011)

Education

• MS Politecnico di Milano (2004 — 2007)
• visiting student Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, Madrid, ETSAM (2004 — 2005)
• BS in Architecture Science Politecnico di Milano (2001 — 2004)