Biography
Adine Gavazzi is an Italian-Swiss architect of the Politecnico di Milano who specialized in Anthropology of the Americas at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Starting with a thesis on the Inca settlements and territorial planning at Ollantaytambo, she has focused her research on sacred spaces, ceremonial centers and theocratic capitals.
Since 1996 she works for CISRAP at Cahuachi, Nasca and (more recently) also at Tiahuanaco; she also works for the Unidad Ejecutora de Lambayeque Ventarrón, Chiclayo, as well as for the Cuzco decentralized office of the Ministry of Culture at Machu Picchu. In these projects she has sequenced construction phases, defined field methodologies, structured disciplinary theoretical basis, and prepared 3D models of the sites. She also studies the “maloca” communal houses of the Amazon and the settlement patterns, at different times, of the Cosmo-centric societies of the coastal, Andean and Amazon regions.
She is a founding member of the UNESCO Professorship on Anthropology of Health at the Università di Genova (Genoa, Italy); a researcher at Nasca for the Centro Studi e Ricerche Archeologiche Precolombiane of Brescia, Italy; and an associate member of Architects Without Frontiers and the Mimondo NGO. She has published several essays on Inca architecture, Cahuachi, Ventarrón, the scared mountains of the Andes and other archaeological/anthropological subjects.
She is author of “Andean Architecture – The history and forms of sacred spaces”, “Microcosms – Andean view of the prehispanic spaces”, “Lima – Prehispanic memory of the urban layout” and co-author of “Rio Abiseo National Park”.
Since 1996 she works for CISRAP at Cahuachi, Nasca and (more recently) also at Tiahuanaco; she also works for the Unidad Ejecutora de Lambayeque Ventarrón, Chiclayo, as well as for the Cuzco decentralized office of the Ministry of Culture at Machu Picchu. In these projects she has sequenced construction phases, defined field methodologies, structured disciplinary theoretical basis, and prepared 3D models of the sites. She also studies the “maloca” communal houses of the Amazon and the settlement patterns, at different times, of the Cosmo-centric societies of the coastal, Andean and Amazon regions.
She is a founding member of the UNESCO Professorship on Anthropology of Health at the Università di Genova (Genoa, Italy); a researcher at Nasca for the Centro Studi e Ricerche Archeologiche Precolombiane of Brescia, Italy; and an associate member of Architects Without Frontiers and the Mimondo NGO. She has published several essays on Inca architecture, Cahuachi, Ventarrón, the scared mountains of the Andes and other archaeological/anthropological subjects.
She is author of “Andean Architecture – The history and forms of sacred spaces”, “Microcosms – Andean view of the prehispanic spaces”, “Lima – Prehispanic memory of the urban layout” and co-author of “Rio Abiseo National Park”.
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