MVRDV welcomes our new Head of Urban, Anna Gasco, to the practice. Anna will oversee MVRDV’s urban planning projects and development strategies in the Netherlands and globally. She is also Head of Urbanism at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, where she leads the chair and develops the educational curriculum. She brings a wealth of international knowledge adding to the vibrancy of our office.

Committed to cultivating synergies between the professional and academic worlds, Anna is a Visiting Faculty at Harvard GSD and was Assistant Professor (Adj.) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Anna’s latest book, “The Airport as Urban Territory”, investigates the spatial effects of Singapore’s Changi Airport. Prior to joining MVRDV, she was Associate at KCAP leading their Singapore and Southeast Asia hub and worked as senior researcher at the multidisciplinary Singapore ETH Future Cities Laboratory (FCL).

Anna is a registered architect and urban designer with over 20 years of international experience in project delivery, know-how of working in multidisciplinary teams and of taking a holistic approach to design. Her expertise ranges from multi-layered area transformations, post-growth cities, innovation districts, developments around urban mobility hubs, urban megaprojects, and strategic master planning. Her international experience has taught her to distinguish the locally valuable from the globally applicable and to translate different perspectives into resilient spatial schemes.