7th Lecturers

Lecturer 1 and 7

Marieke Timmermans educated as a landscape architect at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (1994). ln 1998 she founded the agency Landscape Architects for Sale (LA4sale) with Pepin Godefroy. Since 2008, it will focus as Director of Indewei BV on building development in the landscape. She is Head of the department of Landscape at Academy of Architecture Amsterdam.

Lecturer 7 and 8

Robert Schäfer, born 1954 in Germany, is Editor-in-Chief of Topos. He studied Landscape Planning at the Technical University, Berlin and Journalism at the University of Stuttgart. Robert Schäfer founded Topos as the European Review of Landscape Architecture in 1992 and in 2005 Topos became The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Since 1984 he has also been editor-in-chief of Garten + Landschaft, a German language journal of landscape architecture. Robert Schäfer has been based in Munich, Bavaria since 1982.

Architect and landscape architect, member of the Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori de la UPC, professor of Landscape Architecture in ETSAV (1982-1992), Master of Landscape in UPC since 1991 and of urbanism (degree) in ETSAB since 1992. He has been a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, GSD Harvard University and Facoltà di Architettura di Venezia, IUAV. He is currently Member of Culture of the Governing Board of the COAC, a member of LUB and AxA. He has been president of the international jury of the V Biennial of Landscape Barcelona and finalist in II and VI editions. Founding partner of Ruisánchez Arquitectes, working on Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Architecture projects, he has been recognized with several awards including: Fad Architecture Prize in 1997, Catalonia Construction Award, 2005 Catalonia Social Housing Award 2007 Technal Architecture Prize in 2008, Barcelona City Award, Architecture and Urbanism 2012.