Nina von Albertini

Nina von Albertini (born 1957 in Zurich) worked as a jewelry designer and artist during the late 1970s and 1980s in Milano, New York, and Switzerland during which time she staged performances and gallery exhibitions while her work was also published in various fashion magazines and catalogues. After returning to Switzerland and studying agricultural engineering, specializing in soil physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), she opened an o]ice for environmental engineering and landscape architecture in 2001. Since then, she has worked actively on making environmental issues become a key factor in highly technological and large-scale construction projects while also returning to her roots in jewelry making.