Anna Gherardi (°1995, Mulhouse, France) has been a state qualified architect in France since 2019. She trained at the National Higher School for Architecture and Landscape of Lille (ENSAPL) and spent one academic year at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She oriented her master's degree on the field of changing territories and metropolitan situations, focusing more on issues related to large territories, as well as urban and metropolitan challenges. Her end-of-studies project on the Franco-Belgian cross-border situation consisted of transforming a place, which was a source of tension on both sides of the state border, over time, by bringing together different actors, resources and actions. Her work on the theme of cross-border issues continued during her internship at the Walloon office for architecture and urbanism Baumans-Deffet, in the form of a research project studying cross-border cooperation in the Meuse-Rhine Euregio. Furthermore, in the context of her research dissertation, she was interested in the relationship that architects have with media, and more particularly with books and architecture reviews.

Fascinated by questions related to processes as well as by spatial shaping, she joined AWB’s team in November 2019 as a research collaborator. She is now working on the concept of the 'productive city', on issues related to the governance of water management, and on the question of multifunctionality and space usage in public facilities.