Anita Berrizbeitia is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on twentieth-century landscape architecture, particularly on urban and productive landscapes. Her work has been published in A+U, Daniel Urban Kiley The Early Gardens (Princeton Architectural Press), Recovering Landscape (Princeton Architectural Press), Roberto Burle Marx Landscapes Reflected (Princeton Architectural Press), and CASE: Downsview (Prestel). She is the author, with architect Linda Pollak, of INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Between Architecture and Landscape (Rockport 1999).


A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Berrizbeitia studied architecture at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, and received a BA from Wellesley College and an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 1987 to 1993 she practiced with Child Associates in Boston, where she worked on many award-winning projects, and in a broad range of scales, from tight urban sites to large regional parks. She was Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD from 1993 to 1998.