As part of the MIDIS ARCHI lecture series, you are cordially invited by the Interior Architecture Department of HEAD – Genève to attend the lecture by Annalisa Metta, which will take place on Monday, November 16, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Room and the City: The Public Life of Houseplants

Annalisa Metta is a landscape architect and Full Professor of Landscape Architecture at Roma Tre University. Her research explores the relationship between landscape design and ideas of nature, between the wild and the domestic, the spontaneous and the designed. In 2007 she co-founded the Rome-based studio Osa architettura e paesaggio, with which she has signed numerous award-winning and published projects. Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2016–2017), she is the author of Il paesaggio è un mostro. Città selvatiche e nature ibride (DeriveApprodi, 2022) and Alberi! 30 frammenti di storia d’Italia (Marsilio Arte, 2022), and co-edited Wild & The City (Libria, 2020). Since 2025 she has been President of the Italian Scientific Society of Landscape Architecture (IASLA). In 2026 she co-directs the III Biennale dello Stretto with Alfonso Femia and Salima Naji.