Jury Rosa Barba 1

Born in 1929. He studied landscape architecture at the Wageningen Agricultural University and the University of Pennsylvania. After six years of experience as a landscape consultant of the State Forest Service, he was appointed Professor and Chairman of Landscape Architecture at the Wageningen Agricultural University, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. He has written numerous articles on landscape and urban planning as well as the book “Outdoor Space”.

Lecturer 8

Antonio Presti is a Sicilian artist-patron, who decided to dedicate his whole self for the triumph of art and culture in all its forms. President of the Foundation Fiumara d’Arte, has been engaged for years in Italy and around the world to create awareness related to culture, but above all a spirit of ethics, which is formed through a different relationship with their beauty. Among the initiatives: the creation of the park of sculptures in the Valley of the Nebrodis in Sicily Fiumara d’Arte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Atelier sul Mare (Castel di Tusa, ME), etc.

Ramon Torra is an architect from the ETSAB (1980). He is manager of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area since July 2011 (between 2008 and 2011 called the Association of Municipalities of the AMB). CEO of IMPSOL since October 2008. He has been a municipal architect and Director of Territorial Services at the Granollers City Council (1982-1992).

As Director of Technical Services of the Association of Municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona, ​​the projects developed under his direction that have received different professional recognitions: FAD Awards in different editions, Catalonia Construction Award 2007, ATEG 2002 Awards, International Prize Barbara Cappochin 2005 (Padova), Prize AIA Continental Europe 2000, Construmat Prize 2007, II Rosa Barba Landscape Prize 2000 and 2002, among others.

He drafted different planning figures, such as the General Plan for Granollers, Partial and Special Plans among others, as well as various public space and architectural projects.

Lecturer 8

Francesc Muñoz. PhD in Geography and Professor in the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1995. He is specialized in urban design and design of territorial strategies; he has participated in different tasks of European Council related to these questions. Now, he is director of the Observatory of Urbanism and the Master of Interventions and Landscape Management, both in the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Lecturer 8

Yael Moria-Klain is a Professor of landscape architecture at the Technion – The Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. She is a practicing landscape architect and is partner at Moria-Sekely Landscape Architecture, the firm behind many of Israel’s major urban landscaping projects. Moria-Klain is a researcher and curator in the architecture and public space field. She received her master’s degree in Architecture & Urban Culture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Jury Rosa Barba 1 and 2

Born in Barcelona, 1925. Doctor of Architecture from the ETSAB, founder of the master's degree course in Landscape at the Department of Urbanism and Town and Country Planning, UPC, Emeritus Professor. Author of Vallparadis Park in Terrassa. He has published the book Jardins de Catalunya.

Lecturer 8

Born in Barcelona in 1955. Enric is architect and professor of History of Art and Architecture in the School of Architecture of Barcelona. He has curated several exhibitions. He has many texts published in magazines: Carrer de la ciutat, Insula, Rey lagarto, Dyonisos, Arquitecturas bis, Casabella, etc.