anna darling

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Anna is a landscape architect and educator practicing in Philadelphia. At PORT her work primarily focues on large scale landscape planning and park design, imaginative playgrounds, and bountiful native planting design. She currently teaches as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.  

She holds a masters degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. 

Anna grew up in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona (the most biodiverse desert in the world) which inspired her research on groundwater and water use in the Western United States.