Adine Gavazzi

Adine Gavazzi is a Swiss architect from the Polytechnic University of Milan, specializing in Andean and Amazonian anthropology. She holds professorships at the Pedro Ruiz Gallo National University in Lambayeque, the National Intercultural University of Amazonia in Pucallpa, and the National Intercultural University in Quillabamba. As a founding member of the UNESCO Chair in Health Anthropology at the University of Genoa and collaborator with the USI UNESCO Chair in Lugano, her work bridges cultural heritage conservation with contemporary sustainability challenges.

• Key Research Areas: Ceremonial architecture, healing landscapes, forest cultures, technomorphology, sacred mountains, and mixed world heritage
• Notable Projects: Cultural component director for the 2017 Rio Abiseo Expedition; co-director of the Fiesta del Agua (Far Ich Lap) in Lambayeque since 2019

Her technomorphological methodology integrates technological and morphological analyses of pre-Hispanic architecture, applied at World Heritage Sites including Machu Picchu, Tiahuanaco, and Río Abiseo. Recent publications focus on cultural landscape dynamics, biosphere heritage, and intercultural transmission of ethnomedical knowledge among forest communities.

• Key Collaborations: UNESCO Chair in ICT for sustainable tourism, Museum of Ethnomedicine A. Scarpa, interdisciplinary teams at World Heritage sites