Annetta Pedretti

{{Short description|Architect and cybernetician (1954–2018)}}

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| name = Annetta Pedretti

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| birth_date = 1954

| birth_place = Celerina, Switzerland{{Cite web |title=Home — House of Annetta |url=https://houseofannetta.org/home |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=houseofannetta.org}}

| death_date = {{death year and age|2018|1954}}

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| fields = Architecture
Design

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• Architectural Association School of Architecture
• Brunel University of London (PhD)

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| thesis_title = The cybernetics of language{{Cite thesis |last=Pedretti |first=Annetta |title=The cybernetics of language |date=1981 |degree=Doctor of Philosophy |publisher=Brunel University Theses |url=https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5311 |language=en}}

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| thesis_year = 1981

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| known_for = Cybernetics

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Annetta Pedretti (1954-2018{{Cite web |title=Annetta Pedretti 1954-2018 |url=https://asc-cybernetics.org/annetta-pedretti-1954-2018/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |language=en-US |website=American Society for Cybernetics}}) was an architect associated with second-order cybernetics.{{Cite journal |last=Perera |first=Dulmini |date=2025-04-08 |title=Designing in the Context of Time: Why Annetta Pedretti’s cybernetic-architectural practice at 25 Princelet Street matters |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/arq-architectural-research-quarterly/article/designing-in-the-context-of-time-why-annetta-pedrettis-cyberneticarchitectural-practice-at-25-princelet-street-matters/ED774325D9A3E339960029C8C652A308 |journal=arq: Architectural Research Quarterly |language=en |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1017/S1359135524000125 |issn=1359-1355}}

She is known for her long-term design project refurbishing a house at 25 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, now called the House of Annetta.{{Cite journal |last=Perera |first=Dulmini |date=2022-09-23 |title=Designing in the Context of Time: On Annetta Pedretti, practicing cybernetics and futuring |url=https://rsdsymposium.org/annetta-pedretti-practicing-cybernetics-and-futuring/ |journal=Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design |volume=RSD11 |number=110 |language=en-CA}}