Biennial International Team 10 and 11

Architect collaborator of  the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture.

Eulàlia Gómez-Escoda is an architect (ETSAB) and holds a PhD in Urbanism (UPC-Barcelona TECH).

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism, Territory and Landscape (DUTP) of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC), where she has been teaching and researching since 2008 and has been the Deputy Director of International Relations since 2021.

She has been invited to teach at international schools such as KU Leuven School of Architecture, Universiteit Antwerpen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts KADK, German University in Cairo, Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile, TEC de Monterrey in Mexico and the Graduate School of Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University. She was a design critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (autumn 2019).

She has collaborated with Ruisánchez Arquitectes and BAU Arquitectura i Urbanisme on urban design and public space projects throughout Europe.

She is co-author of research works related to Barcelona, such as Barcelona Metropolis (preliminary work and analysis for the development of the new Metropolitan Urban Master Plan, DHUB 2014-2015) or Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future. Reality vs. Project (commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Eixample Cerdà, CCCB 2009). Her research has been presented at international conferences and published in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Urban Design and Urban Planning, among others.

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Laurence Vacherot: Born in 1951, France. Landscape Architect degree by Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles in 1979 and before that took Carpentry course in Paris (1970-1971) just after her A level in Philosopy.
She started her practice in 1974-75 by the office SESPA (Allain Provost)  later, she joined the office API, a landscape cooperative where she led projects from 1975-77. Finally, she set up in 1978 with her partner Gilles Vexlard Landscape Architect, the office LATITUDE NORD (1978-2019), a landscape architect office that received more National and International rewards - BDLA 2005 First prize for Landscape Park Munich-Reim; National French Prize Grand Prix du Paysage in 2009 for the project: Base de Loisir Port aux Cérises and a International Urbanism prize in 2010. Since 2000, Laurence Vacherot is a Landscape Architect advisor for the regional Sites Commission of Oise.

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Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Acting Director of Architecture History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. 

He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy of the Landscape and Spatial Planning Institute at NMBU in Norway.

He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Architecture, Garden Design Journal, Utopian Studies, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. His brother is the experimental musician, writer, and producer Alex Waterman.

Professor of Landscape Theory The Bartlett School of Architecture

Carme Ribas is an architect, graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) in 1980. In 1985 she obtained a Diploma from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Landscape Architecture. She has been a professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAB since 1987. She has also taught classes in the Master's and Landscaping Degree at the UPC.

She began her professional activity as an architect for the Urban Elements and Projects Service of the Barcelona City Council, in the period between 1981 and 1986, where she carried out several projects in public space. Since 1985 she has shared a professional activity with Pere Joan Ravetllat Mira, with whom she has carried out several projects both in the field of housing and in that of equipment or public space.

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Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities.

She is a chairwoman of the landscape without the border IFLA APR, TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow. She received her master's in landscape architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Kotchakorn is featured in 2019, TIME 100 Next, —that spotlights 100 rising stars, shaping the future of the world and 15 women fighting against climate change from TIME Magazine. She was named BBC100 Women, the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg and got an award from United Nations as Winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results.

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