Jeannette Sordi is an architect and urban planner based in New York City. She is an adjunct associate professor at New York Tech and is a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank division of Housing and Urban Development. Until 2018, she was an associate professor of Landscape and Urbanism at Adolfo Ibañez University in Santiago de Chile. Sordi earned a Ph.D. 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 dissertation focused on the genealogy of landscape urbanism and was published as "Beyond Urbanism" (List, 2014; Sacabana, 2017, Spanish edition). Her main publications include the books 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 (LoA, 2020) and the forthcoming Ecological Urbanism: Strategies for the Vulnerable City.
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- ARCH 361
- ARCH 362
- AAID 160
- ARCH 824