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João Nunes is a Landscape Architect with a great passion for drawing and understanding the processes of the world. In 1985, he founded the PROAP studio which, according to his philosophy, approaches landscape themes in a broad sense, intervening in the processes that the project integrates, using inputs from various disciplines and considering the landscape as a process in continuous transformation. The professional activity and didactics intertwine and enrich each other, contributing to the development of new lines of research and experimentation. Visiting Professor at several international universities (Harvard GSD, UPenn, OSU, Pamplona, Versailles among others), he is Full Professor at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio and member of several scientific committees. In 2013 he was awarded the 1st Chair of Excellence “Adalberto Libera” and in 2017 with the Gagliarid Prize - Cittá di Asti. In 2010 he published the monograph “PROAP - Arquitectura Paisagista”(Note), which summarizes the first 25 years of the studio, and in 2011 is co-author of “Lost Competitions” (Proap Editions). In 2017 he was organizer and director of “Cagliari Paesaggio”. Projects developed by Proap have received several national and international awards and have been several times finalists for the Prize “Rosa Barba” at the Landscape Biennial of Barcelona.
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The main objective of her work is the holistic approach of space within the framework of ecological – sustainable design, the project’s integration in the landscape with respect to the unique qualities and memories of each location (genius loci), and the socio-cultural conditions of place. Among the special aims of her projects are the design solutions emphasising on a close connection to nature and its processes, on the natural dynamics and their biodiversity, on vegetation as a structural spatial element. Conceiving built space and andscape as a unique entity might create places where humans feel involved, in harmony with their environment and are keen of taking the responsibility for its maintenance.
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Vice-rector of Infrastructure and Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, is an University Professor and professor in ETSAB for graduate and postgraduate subjects. He has been invited as a teacher in about twenty prestigious international universities. Quality Award for University Teaching at the UPC (2011) and Jaume Vicens Vives Award. International teaching evaluator since 2015. For three decades, he has been part of the final project for the ETSAB and, since 2012, as president. Research Professor of the Urban Planning Doctorate Program of the UPC, distinguished with the Mention of Excellence (MEE 2011-0730). Director of seven doctoral theses cum laude, among them, Urban corners in the territory with extraordinary PhD award. Triennial research prize Lluís Domènech i Muntaner, Europa Nostra honor medal and Alejandro de la Sota Extraordinary Prize-20 Years of Biennials, modality of outdoor spaces: urban spaces, parks and gardens, interventions in the landscape and urban planning. Author of about twenty research books and more than a hundred scientific articles, book chapters and papers presented at international conferences. Reviewer of several indexed magazines. He has been the director of the Department of Town Planning and Planning of the UPC and has been awarded the National Urbanism Prize.
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Teresa Moller is a well-known Chilean Landscape Architect that has been working in the field for the past 30 years. It has been a self-training journey, working on a variety of projects of different scales. Her work approach is unique, careful observation and awareness of the landscape is key for developing successful social-culture projects. Bringing nature accessible to people so they can connect and value nature around them is essential within her work philosophy. One of the most important aspects before starting a design is to consider what is on site and then what is needed to bring the experience of nature to people. She strongly believes in the power of simplicity. Chile benefits from such contrasting landscapes, wedged between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes mountain to the east; it is a country that offers remarkable natural resources. She considers herself lucky of being able to work with such a diversity of landscapes, from the Atacama Desert to the lakes and glaciers of the south, as they have taught her everything and have been the setting for the majority of the projects in the studio. Every project is a direct and unique result of its environment.
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Kathryn Moore, Immediate Past President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University has published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. Her book, Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (2010) provides the basis for critical, artistic discourse. Her teaching, research and practice, set within landscape architecture have clear implications for architecture, planning, urban design and other art and design disciplines, in addition to philosophy, aesthetics and education more generally. She has taken a lead role in redefining the relationship between landscape, culture and governance, finance, health and community engagement within the context of a radical proposal for a West Midlands National Park, launched in a major international conference held at BCU in June 2018. She is a member of the Independent National Design Review Panel for HS2.
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Walter is the Creative Director and Founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. Hood Design Studio is his tripartite practice, working across art + fabrication, design + landscape, and research + urbanism. He is also a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. Walter designs and creates urban spaces and objects that are public sculpture. Believing everyone needs beauty in their life, he makes use of everyday objects to create new apertures through which to see the surrounding emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies of urban space. His ideas emerge from years of studying and practicing architecture, landscape architecture, and fine arts, and yet Walter tactfully eschews from differentiating between the three on any one project. His projects also highlight. The Studio’s award winning work has been featured in publications including Dwell, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Architectural Digest, Places Journal, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Walter Hood is also a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.
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Gary Hilderbrand, the 2017 winner of the American Society of Landscape Architects Design Medal, is a principal of Reed Hilderbrand Associates LLC, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught seminars and design studios since 1990. His firm has been recognized with more than eighty regional and national design awards. Notable projects include Long Dock Park in Beacon, NY, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, and campus projects at Bennington College, Duke University, Yale, Harvard, and MIT. His firm’s monograph, Visible Invisible, was recognized with the Award of Excellence in Communications from ASLA, and, in the same year, Reed Hilderbrand was recognized as ASLA’s Firm of the Year. In 2015, partners Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand were voted among the top five “most admired practitioners” by the members of ASLA’s Professional Practice Network. Design Intelligence recognized Hilderbrand as one of the 25 Most Influential Educators in Design in the US for 2017. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, where he was recently the Mercedes T. Bass Resident in Landscape Architecture for the fall of 2017.
1952 - 2018
He was vice-president of IFLA, director of the IFLA Central Region and professor of landscape architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Anna Zahonero Xifré, Biologist (UB) and Master of Landscape Architecture (UPC). Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the UPC since 2001 developing, mainly, her docent assignments in landscaping, and research tasks in CRPP_ UPC. Since 1993 operates as professional in studies and the design of the landscape and the environment. Remarkable projects on landscape and ecological integration of certain uses in particular areas with strong pre-existences, the reporting on environmental for urban and regional planning and the writing of landscape projects where ecological processes are the base.
Maria Goula is Associate Professor at the Landscape Architecture Department, CALS, Cornell University. She is also adjunct researcher at the Institute for Research Habitat, Territory and Tourism”, ihtt, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and University of Málaga, developing research on coastal tourism, especially in regard to the interpretation of leisure patterns and coastal dynamics. Foundation member of the International Landscape Architecture Biennial in Barcelona since 2000. Awards: Extraordinary PhD Award UPC in the field of Landscape Design theory in 2009 with her thesis "The other landscapes; readings of the variable image", thesis Directors Rosa Barba, M. de Solà-Morales. Leader, with Jamie Vanucchi, of the “Upstate Archipelago” team Cornell University, [advisors landscape architect Frank Talsma from H+N+S, The Netherlands, and Professor emeritus Ricard Pié]. The design team is one of the finalists for the “Reimagining the New York Canals” state design competition June 2018.
