Jury Chair Gary is a renowned landscape architect, educator, and writer, with a deep commitment to both the history and future of landscape architecture. Since co-founding his practice with Douglas Reed in 2000, Gary has led numerous projects advancing urban forestry, from small plazas to city-scale plans. His current work includes the transformation of New York’s Lever House and an expansion of Storm King Art Center. As the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and current Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department, Gary has taught since 1990. His awards include the ASLA Design Medal, the Rome Prize, and the ASLA Firm of the Year award (2013). In 2016, Design Intelligence named him one of its "25 Most Admired Educators." Gary’s writings, including Visible Invisible (2012) and The Miller Garden (1999), explore how landscape architecture connects cultural tradition with modern urban change. Influenced early on by Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature, Gary brings a lifelong passion for landscape, environmental issues, and design to his work.

HUANG Wenjing, AIA, founding partner of OPEN, Kenzo Tange Design Critic in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. HUANG received her B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in 1996, and her M. Arch. from Princeton University in 1999. She is a licensed architect in New York State and a member of the AIA. HUANG Wenjing and LI Hu co-founded OPEN in New York City in 2003 and established the studio’s Beijing office in 2008. Prior to OPEN, HUANG was a senior designer and associate at the New York-based firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners. HUANG has been named one of the “50 under 50: Innovators of the 21st Century, and 2022 Wallpaper* China Design Awards | Designer of the Year. Huang taught at various institutions, including Tsinghua University, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the University of Hong Kong. Recently, HUANG Wenjing and LI Hu co-authored three books about OPEN: OPEN Questions (2018), Towards Openness (2018), and OPEN Reaction (2015).