Giulia Frittoli
Senior Landscape Architect at BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group,
As Senior Landscape Architect at BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, Giulia Frittoli heads the landscape design approach by bringing focus to urban and natural systems, questioning and rethinking the traditional approach to public spaces and city planning. Since 2019, she’s leading the proposal for Toyota Woven City that investigates how recent technologies will shape the future of cities, in relation to new forms of mobility, sustainability, ecology and human connectivity. Frittoli joined BIG in 2017 as project lead for the design of Islais Hyper-Creek proposal for the Resilient by Design competition, exploring solutions to adapt and protect the Bay Area from environmental risks. Among Frittoli's most relevant works, the masterplan for the Coliseum Arena in Oakland, masterplan for Ravenswood waterfront in East palo Alto and the vision plan for Downtown Brooklyn Public Realm. Prior to BIG, she worked for four years as a Landscape Designer and Urban Planner for the Dutch firm West 8. Frittoli has extensive experience in resilient master-planning and public space design at various scales and throughout the world.