Architect, Founder of Yellow Office
Francesca Benedetto is a practitioner and an educator. Her work centers on the interplay between city and nature, envisioning landscapes from both environmental and social perspectives, examining ecological processes, biodiversity, and climate adaptation while always considering the identity and memory of places. In 2008, Benedetto founded YellowOffice, an international landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art firm based in Milan. The practice explores new typologies of public spaces capable of addressing the challenges of climate change and responding to the needs of diverse communities. Each project seeks to reintroduce an emotional and spiritual connection to the landscape, aiming to define commons that can truly reconnect people with nature. YellowOffice engages with multiple scales of design, from territorial strategies, urban planning, public spaces, parks, cemeteries, and gardens to pavilions, interiors, objects and exhibitions, and is regularly involved in projects within the public realm, mostly related to cultural and civic landscapes. The practice has worked on numerous projects internationally, earning multiple awards. Among recent recognitions is the winning entry in the International Competition for the New European Library of Information and Culture (Nuova BEIC) (Milan, 2022, currently under construction), where the primary landscape intervention is a new forest plaza (Piazza BEIC). Since 2016, Francesca Benedetto has been a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, in the Department of Landscape Architecture.
