As an architect of Italian origin with strong language skills, I work internationally to conceive, design, and build houses, interiors, and objects as a humble contribution to making this a better world.
After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan and spending a few years working as an architect in my hometown, I began to travel, mostly to collaborate with renowned offices but also to develop my own projects. I have lived and worked in Berlin, New York, Paris, London, and Lyon.
For the past 14 years, I have been living and working in Switzerland, where I am registered with the Ordine Ingegneri e Architetti del Ticino (OTIA).
In addition to architecture and project management, I work as a freelance editor, with around thirty articles published in international architecture and design magazines.
I am able to perform all phases of a project and to achieve results with method and discipline, precision and passion.
No unforeseen or foreign languages, no local building codes or complicated teams and construction site dust, can discourage my determination to bring the project to his best accomplishment.
The technical challenges of elaborated architectural artifacts does not attenuate my tension toward a sustainable beauty for built environment.
Two residential buildings - Janine Wachsmann Architektur
mq 800 CH Ebmatingen ZH - five apartments
[Design – Building Permit Application – Construction Documents 2025-2026]
Two residential buildings - Janine Wachsmann Architektur
mq 900 CH Oberägeri ZG - eight apartments
[Revisioni domanda di costruzione - Esecutivi 2025-2026]
Edificio residenziale - Janine Wachsmann Architektur
mq 500 CH Ebmatingen ZH - two apartments
[Design – Building Permit Application – Construction Documents 2024-2026]
Villa con SPA - Janine Wachsmann Architektur
mq 2500 CH Canton Svitto
[Design – Building Permit Application – Construction Documents 2024-2025]
Afry Schweiz SA
CH Freiburg
[Project Manager 2023]
SIN Trento Nord - Consorzio d Bonifica e Sviluppo Urbanistico
mq 100.000 IT Trento - Masterplan
[Concept design and Selling Dossier 2020-2022]
A good architect is much more than a creative maverick. Great architecture demands vision, first management skills, sensitivity to materials, diplomacy, curiosity for new techniques and respect for traditional ones, team spirit, patience, clarity, and a lot of passion. Ms Albretti is the rare individual that possesses this unique combination of qualities. I have been in awe of her flexibility and of the resolute attitude of her design.
Paola Antonelli, architect, MoMA's senior curator of Architecture and Design and director of R&D - New York USGiovanna Albretti, is an architect, a solver of complexity, with the speed suggested by an organized and clear mind. For us of the Magazine Abitare, she has being an irreplaceable help to guide us, with culture and knowledge, in the labyrinths of the new architecture of northern Europe. Lively and determined in designing and realizing with technical competence, attentive prompter in imagining new things in the design field.
Italo Lupi, architect, chief editor, graphic designer - Milan ITGiovanna Albretti manage a complex project with competence and professionality and show great capacity to integrate/lead a working team. I will define excellent her oral and written expression and I appreciate her sincerity, and sensitivity in the professional relationships.
Massimo Marazzi, architect, professor SUPSI - Chiasso CH