Landscape Schools Award: International Jury
Hayriye Esbah-Tunçay is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Technical University and a former Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Recognized for her pioneering research in landscape ecology and its effective integration into design, she is a leading figure in the design of sustainable cities in the face of the challenges of climate change. Emphasizing the essential connection between human well-being and ecological harmony, her vision encompasses urban, rural, natural, historic, and cultural landscapes.
Her illustrious career has been honored with numerous publications and research grants, including the Turkish Higher Education Council Fellowship, the prestigious Fulbright Research Fellowship, and various European Union research grants. As the founding director of HET (Habitat-Ecology-Technology), an Istanbul-based landscape architecture and urban design firm, she has led innovative projects that promote climate sustainability and resilience and have received numerous national and international awards and recognitions, including the National Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Awards (eight times). Esbah-Tunçay holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University and a Master's in Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona. She is a registered landscape architect with the Turkish Chamber of Landscape Architects and a member of ICOMOS.
Luis Callejas is a professor of landscape architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and a visiting professor at Harvard University (2023–2026). His research bridges architecture and landscape architecture, focusing on geographic themes shared by both disciplines and on how climate change reshapes design pedagogy. Callejas’ projects span master plans, cities, gardens, and large landscapes, including the exterior renovation of Oslo's former US embassy by Eero Saarinen, the aquatic center for the XI South American Games, and the “El Campin” stadium in Bogotá. In 2022, his studio was chosen to contribute to future Norwegian Scenic Routes projects.
Honored with the Architectural League of New York Prize (2013) and recognized as a top emerging studio by Metropolis Magazine (2016), Callejas has exhibited his work globally at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Lisbon Triennial, the Seoul Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. His publications include Pamphlet Architecture 33 and Pedagogical Experiments for a Changing Climate (2023). Callejas has held teaching and fellowship positions at Yale, Edinburgh, Harvard, and various international universities, and has served on prominent design juries and as a visiting critic at numerous institutions.
Jury Chair Gary Hilderbrand is the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the current Chair of the GSD’s Department of Landscape Architecture. He is also Principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a landscape architecture practice in Cambridge and New Haven. His honors include Harvard University’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, and the 2013 ASLA Firm of the Year award. Hilderbrand is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA Design Medal. Design Intelligence named him one of its “25 Most Admired Educators” of 2016.
Through three widely acclaimed books and two dozen essays, Hilderbrand has helped to position landscape architecture’s role in reconciling intellectual and cultural traditions with contemporary forces of urbanization and change. As a teacher, designer, and critic, Hilderbrand brings forward a passion for landscape architecture’s history and its future potential everywhere he works. He leads commissions that draw upon the traditions of American landscape architecture while also facing the major global crises of our time—climate change and environmental justice. Since co-founding Reed Hilderbrand in 2000 with Douglas Reed, he has been responsible for several projects that enrich and advance urban forestry practices, from a single plaza to a district to an entire city.
HUANG Wenjing, founding partner of OPEN Architecture, Kenzo Tange Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, visiting professor at the Tsinghua University, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the University of Hong Kong. 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. Prior to OPEN, HUANG was a senior designer and associate at the New York-based firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners.
HUANG Wenjing and LI Hu co-founded OPEN in New York City in 2006 and established the studio’s Beijing office in 2008. Some major projects by OPEN include: UCCA Dune Art Museum, Chapel of Sound, Sun Tower, Tank Shanghai, Shanfeng Academy, Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School, Pingshan Performing Arts Center, Tsinghua Ocean Center, Garden School/Beijing No.4 High School Fangshan Campus, and Gehua Youth and Cultural Center.
OPEN’s work has been widely recognized, with recent awards including the AIA International Design Awards Honor Award (US), Arcasia Awards Gold Award, Design for Asia Awards, LEAF Awards (EU), AR Future Project Awards (UK), P/A Awards (US), AZ Awards (CAN), AIA Education Facility Design Award of Excellence (US), Civic Trust Awards (UK), Iconic Awards Best of Best (GER), and the Winning Prize of the WA Awards for Chinese Architecture, among many others.
Lisa Diedrich studied architecture and urbanism in Paris, Marseille and Stuttgart, science journalism in Berlin, and landscape architecture at the University of Copenhagen, where she received her doctoral degree. She currently works as a professor of landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp/ Malmö and as editor-in-chief of the book series Landscape Architecture Europe (Fieldwork/ On Site/ In Touch/ On The Move) and as co-editor-in-chief, with Harry Harsema, of ’scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism.
Xiangrong Wang is professor of School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, founder and principal of Atelier DYJG, vice president of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA) (2008-18), chairman of Territorial Landscape Committee, CHSLA, vice chairman of Education Committee, CHSLA, the editor-in-chief of Chinese Landscape magazine, the founding editor-in-chief of Landscape Architecture journal, and Fellow of Landscape Institute of UK.
He obtained BLA from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University Shanghai in 1983, MLA from School of Landscape Architecture of Beijing Forestry University in 1986, and Dr.-Ing. from the Dept. of Urban and Landscape Planning at Kassel University, Germany, in 1995.
He has published a total of 22 monographs, edited books and translations. His practical projects have won 2 Honor Awards in Planning and Analysis category and 1 Honor Award in Landscape Design category from American Society of Landscape Architects, 1 award and 3 shortlisted mentions from Landscape Institute(UK), 10 National Landscape Awards from British Association of Landscape Industries, 22 Planning and Design Awards from International Federation of Landscape Architects APR/AAPME, 4 First Prizes and 7 Second Prizes for Planning and Design category from CHSLA and more than 10 other awards.
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Landscape architect. Professor of landscape architecture at the Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, where he founded the Dipartimento Oasi, served as Director from 2002 to 2008, and currently coordinates the doctoral program entitled “Parks, Gardens, and Territorial Planning.” From 1996 to 2004, he served as president of the Rome and Lazio division of IN/Arch. The French Minister of Culture awarded him with the Chévalier des Arts et Lettres in 1998. Honored with the European Premio Gubbio for the squares of Saint-Denis. His projects include: Italian Garden, Osaka, 1990; Matteotti Square, Catanzaro, 1992; Prehistoric Cave Welcome Area, Niaux, 1994; Montecitorio Square, Rome, 1998; Central Squares, Cisterna di Latina, 1997-2005; Manzoni Square, Monte - grotto, 2002; Lungomare Faleria, Porto Sant’Elpidio, 2003; Floating Terrace in Eur Lake, Rome, 2005-2006; Central Squares, Saint-Denis, 2005-2007; Dome of the Presidency of the Republic of Georgia, 2007; Station’s Underground Walkway, Bergamo, 2008. His essays include: L’architettura del giardino contemporaneo, 1988; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 1990; Giardino italiano a Osaka, 1990; Piazza Montecitorio, 1998; Questo è paesaggio. 48 definizioni, 2006. Giardini - Manuale di progettazione, 2009; Piazza Matteotti a Catanzaro. Il volto della città, 2009.
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Ph.D Architect and Master 'Large Scale'. Vice dean of ETSAB, School of architecture of Barcelona, coordinator of the courses Project I-II and professor of the official Master of Architectural Department of ETSAB. Professor of the master 'Large Scale' at the UPC, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, visiting professor at UIC, she has been coordinating and teaching design studio in various international universities and she has been invited as jury's member both nationally and internationally. Research fellowships at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the Technische Universität München. The subject of her Ph.D thesis, 'Hybrid Architecture' , and her main publications, participation in conferences and major projects, conceived the architecture, landscape and infrastructure as inseparable realities.
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Charles Anderson is a licensed Landscape Architect with over 30 years of experience in projects ranging from neighborhood parks to New York's American Museum of Natural History. He has a strong background in public process and has completed many community projects. Anderson has a specific interest in expressionistic landscape restoration and in the development of urban ecologies. Museum and cultural institution work is a key interest of Charles, including projects such as the visitor centers at Mount St. Helens, the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, and Anchorage Museum of History and Art expansion Project.
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Zhang Tianxin has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture, a Master's Degree in Human Geography, and a PhD in Urban Engineering (majoring in Urban Design). He is currently a Lecturer at Peking University, Director of the Landscape and Urbanism Program at the Beijing School of Architecture and Landscape. His research interests include Urban Design, Landscape Planning and Heritage Conservation. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Canada, an expert jury of international workshops in Russia and China, and has been invited to a number of countries such as Japan for teacher exchange. He is an expert in "Urban Planning Review", a member of the "International School Committee" in the China Urban Planning Society, and an analyst in the Web-Journal of Tourism and Cultural Studies (Hokkaido University, Japan). , publisher and special columnist at "Beijing City planning and Construction Review" and a member of several professional societies, including the Japan Institute of Architecture (AIJ). Some of his representative works include the World Heritagets Publishers (Sekaishisosha), Japan, 2007, as one of the editors, the Masterplan for Nanxijiang National Park, and the Lijiang Tourism and Conservation Research Old Town”.
