Valentina Ticino

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About Valentina Ticino

Valentina Ticino leads VT Lab’s international and inter-European projects to a high standard, working across a range of scales, from urban squares to masterplanning, these projects often involve high-profile design teams and complex locations. Over the past decade, Valentina has extended her interest in design and architecture to the field of landscape architecture and masterplanning. Her passion for good quality landscape design is evident in her high-quality designs, such as her award-winning work on ‘Towards Paradise’ at the 2008 Venice Biennale whilst working at Gustafson Porter, winning the International Architecture Award in Chicago, and her competition-winning design for the Baoan Waterfront in Shenzen, China, which she worked on with Antonio Inglese with whom she set up Metrostudio UK LLP in 2012. After closed Metrostudio uk in November 2017, Valentina Founded VT Lab in 2018 _ A Laboratory of Ideas _researcher with University _ Valentina oversees the design and management of all projects. Born in Italy, Valentina studied architecture at Rome University’s La Sapienza, where she was awarded a first-class degree in 2003, she later studied at Ècole d’Architecture de Paris, La Villette and TU Hamburg where in 2005 she obtained a masters in Management of Complex Processes. Since 2005, Valentina has worked for leading designers and architects, including, Fosters & Partners, Aecom, Martha Schwartz and Kathryn Gustafson. She is a part of the Ordine degli Architetti, ARB and RIBA and in 2011 was given the New Italian Blood award as being one of the Top Ten Italian Landscape under the age of 36. website