Valerie Pretto

Valerie Pretto is a Master of Architecture graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to UPenn, she received her Bachelor of Design in Architecture and Minor in Sustainability in the Built Environment from the University of Florida. Her experience at Penn has motivated her to explore form, world building and play; she hopes to continue these explorations into her developing career as a designer.

There is a Man Cut in Two by a Window: Oneiric Architecture in the City Valerie Pretto, Lauren Hunter

Satellite view of the overall form of the mesa and its solar field organization.

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Valerie Pretto, Lauren Hunter

Aerial view of the artificial mesa's solar fields.

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Valerie Pretto, Lauren Hunter

An instrument interlaced with animalistic characteristics.

There is a Man Cut in Two by a Window: Oneiric Architecture in the City Valerie Pretto, Lauren Hunter

Vignette aerial of the solar facility that occupies the top of an artificial mesa in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Lauren Hunter, Valerie Pretto

Artificial machinic mesa atop a natural mesa.

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Valerie Pretto, Lauren Hunter

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