Team
Steffi Schüppel
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), MLA
Freelance landscape architect
She graduated from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH) in Germany as Dipl.-Ing. Landespflege. She holds a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture, obtained in the IMLA International Master of Landscape Architecture, a joint programme offered by the universities HSR Rapperswil, FH Weihenstephan and HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen in Switzerland and Germany. At the HSR Rapperswil she obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Project Management for planners.
Her early career was spent working overseas for Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, one of the leading landscape architecture firms in the USA. She then worked with a number of firms in Germany and Switzerland before starting her own practice. The opportunity to work in teaching and research at the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, a major Swiss school of landscape architecture, gave her the chance to contribute to projects in cultural heritage development, landscape design and sustainable tourism.
She is a chartered member of the Chamber of Architects of Saxony, with the qualification of Landscape Architect. She is a member of bdla - Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten, the Federation of German Landscape Architects, where she serves as spokesperson for international affairs. From 2015 to 2022 she was chair of the regional group of bdla Saxony. She is also a member of AIAPP - Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio, the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture. From 2011 to 2012 she was chair of the Zurich regional group of BSLA - Bund Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsarchitektinnen, the Swiss Federation of Landscape Architects.
Matteo Cattaneo
dott. Arch. (PT), MLA
Urban and regional planner
He holds a Master of Science in Spatial, Urban and Environmental Planning, having graduated in Italy from the Politecnico di Milano, with part of his studies completed in the United Kingdom, at the University of Sheffield and Southbank University London, where he wrote his thesis. He also holds a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from the IMLA International Master of Landscape Architecture, the joint university programme of HSR Rapperswil, FH Weihenstephan and HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen in Switzerland and Germany.
After several years working for one of the most important Italian urban planning offices in Milan, Federico Oliva Associati, he worked freelance with various offices in architecture, urban and environmental planning and also worked independently on various projects.
He has collaborated with the Universities of HSR Rapperswil in Switzerland and HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen in Germany as a consultant for project didactics and as a contract professor.
He is a chartered member of the Italian Chamber of Architects, Town Planners, Landscape Architects and Architectural Restorers, with the qualification of planner, and a member of AIAPP - Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio, the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture.