Anna Heringer is an architectural designer from Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses on the use of local materials, skills and energy sources to create buildings that are distinct and undeniably from their place. 2011 she obtained the renowned Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work was widely published in major architecture magazines worldwide. From October 2008 to May 2011 Anna led the studio BASEhabitat—architecture for development at the University of Arts in Linz, Austria. Since 2010 she has been the honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair "earthen architecture, construction cultures and sustainable development".