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Lecturer of Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard College, Harvard University. He took his degree at Haverford College, and gained his doctorate from Pennsylvania University; Honorary Doctor of Arts of Miami University. He has been awarded prizes by several international bodies, and written numerous articles and books, including Landscape Ecology (1986) and Land Mosaics (1995).
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Born in Barcelona. 1927. He graduated in Law in 1949, in the same year receiving the Guimerà Prize for an article. He currently writes in El Periódico, and between 1976 and 1999 contributed a daily column to the newspaper Avui. His work has been awarded the Joanot Martorell and the Sant Jordi Prizes His works include El nen de la plaça Ballot. Inventari de jubilacions, Viatge per els grans magatzems, L'ecologisme ès un egoisme, A peu per Castella i terres de Sòria and El teu nom és Olga.
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Born in 1936. He is Doctor of Philosophy. Lecturer in Aesthetics at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand. ln charge of the doctorate courses on Gardens, Landscapes and Territory at the Paris-la-Villette School of Architecture. Director of the "Pays/Paysages" collection of Éd. Champ Vallon. His publications include Nus et Paysages; essai sur la fonction de l'art, Paris, Aubier, 1978, and Court Traité du Paysage, Paris, Gallimard, 1997. He won the La Ville à Lire prize in 1997.
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Born in Barcelona, 1941. He graduated in Architecture at the ETSAB in 1965. He was co-founder of Studio PER and BD Ediciones de Diseño. ln 1987, along with Carlos Diaz he founded Tusquets, Diaz Assoc. He has received the National Design Prize, several FAD prizes for Architecture and Design; he was awarded the Spanish Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts; he is Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, and has received the Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Born in Girona, 1970. ETSAB-trained architect, lecturer at the Landscape Architecture Faculty, ETSAB, since 2000. ln 1996 she set up the Collective 10x 5. Main works as a component of 10x15: ephemeral architecture installations during Girona Temps de Les Hors, Pati de les Hors of Can Girbal, Girona (1998 FAD prize for ephemeral spaces); intervention in La Carbonera; Plaça del Jurat, Girona; exhibition "La cuina que ve", Plaça dels Àngels, Barcelona.
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Architect, DPLG in France, and Master in Landscape Architecture from the ETSAB, where she currently lectures. She is Director of the Architecture, Urbanism and Environment Council of the Eastern Pyrenees, an organisation devoted to projects at Community and regional level, in charge of the activities of the Galerie d'Architecture, exhibitions, design programmes and meetings. Her landscape architect practice is based in Toulouse (France).
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Belén Gimeno
Teruel, 1968. Graduated as an architect from the ESTA, Valencia. Coordinator of the workshops at Sot de Chera (Spain) and Andria (Italy).
José Manuel Vidal
Valencia, 1951. Graduated as an architect from the ETSA, Valencia. Co-ordinator of the landscape workshops at La Torre/Alpuente, Sot de Chera (Spain) and Andria (Italy).
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Born in Genoa, 1963. He graduated at the Genoa School of Architecture in 1990. He collaborated with the architect Giancarlo di Carlo in Milan (1990-1993) on the Master Plan of Urbino and the refurbishment of the former Benedictine Monastery. Consultant on projects for the recuperation of river areas in Liguria, where he also teaches courses on environmental engineering and recuperation. He contributes to international architecture and urbanism journals such as Abitare and Spazio Et Società.
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Born in Buenos Aires, 1939. He is an architect and has been a lecturer at the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of Buenos Aires. He is currently Director of the School of Landscape Design. He has been a consultant to the Buenos Aires Urban Development Secretariat and participated in numerous congresses and seminaries. He has worked as an architect since 1964. He has won several awards in ideas competitions and designed single-family and collective housing and buildings for various uses.
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Alain Richert (1947) studied Medicine (1971). Until 1978 he has been experimenting in the fields of painting, photography and video, having given numerous exhibitions. He has also studied botany and ornithology, and has been interested in the world of gardens and books and filmography on gardening. He has designed both private and public gardens in historic centres. Adviser to rural collectives, he has given a workshop at the School of Landscape of Versailles, Architecture in gardening. His main concern is to try to relate history, art and science to the creation of gardens.
