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Martin Knuijt (1966), landscape architect. Martin Knuijt is one of the four founders of OKRA, a prominent landscape architecture office in The Netherlands. Before OKRA he has worked for several years as designer in a team of Urban Planners and Landscape Architects with the municipality of Rotterdam. He is mostly active as designer in urban and landscape development projects on a wide range of design assignments. These vary from abstract plans and long-term visions for the development of landscapes and urban spaces to detailed designs for spatial organisation and architectural objects. The emphasis within this package is on visions and landscape and urban development projects. Recently, he has made studies on spatial use and mobility studies in the urban network. He is author of a couple of publications, including the book “Modern Park design: Recent trends”, together with Hans Ophuis and Peter van Saone.

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Architect DPLG, Urban Planner SFU. Born 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, France; works in Paris, Barcelone, Luxemburg, Baltimore USA Most important projects: French National Library, Paris, France; Olympic Velodrome and Swimming pool, Berlin, Germany; APLIX S.A.- Industrial manufacturing facility, Nantes, France; Great Extension of the European Court of Justice, Luxemburg (studies in progress); Las Teresitas seafront and village, Tenerife, Spain, (studies in progress); Two office and hotel towers on the "Diagonal" in Barcelone, Spain, (studies in progress). State Acedmic Mariinsky Theatre, Second stage, St Petersburg, Russia, (studies in progress). 1997 Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award for European Architecture for the French National Library. Since 2000 member of the Urbanism Committee of the City of Barcelona, Spain.

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Perejaume lives and works in Sant Pol de Mar and in the Montnegre hills. His work brings together literary and visual practices. Painting, writing and long walks have contributed in his body of work to a redefinition of the art of landscape, as corroborated by exhibitions such as "Postaler" (1984), "A 2.000 metres de pintura sobre el nivell del mar" (1988), "Galeria Joan Prats, Coll de Pol-Cim del Costabona" (1990), "Girona, Pineda, Sant Pol i la Vall d'Oo" (1997), "Bocamont, Ceret, Figueres, el Prat, Tarragona i Valls" (2000), "L'obra de Granollers" (2002) and "Retrotabula" (2003).