12th Biennial 2023
Eulàlia Gómez Escoda is an Architect (ETSAB) and PhD in Urbanism (UPC-Barcelona Tech).
She is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Design and Planning DUOT at the Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB-UPC Barcelona Tech, where she has taught since 2008. Since 2021, Deputy Director of International Relations at ETSAB.
Invited professor at international schools such as the School of Architecture of KU Leuven, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts KADK, the German University in Cairo, the Universidad Mayor at Santiago de Chile and the Graduate School of Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University. She was Design Critic at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (fall 2019).
She contributes as a Postdoc Researcher at LUB, Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory. She is contributor to significant research works related to Barcelona as Barcelona Metropolis (preliminary works and analysis to develop the new Metropolitan Urban Director Plan, DHUB 2014-2015) or Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future. Reality vs. Project (commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Eixample Cerdà, CCCB 2009). She has published in the Journal of Urban History and the Journal of Urban Design, among others.
She also develops her professional activity through collaborations with firms developing public projects of Architecture, Urbanism, Public Space and Landscape (Ruisanchez Arquitectes, 2003-2009; BAU Architecture and Urbanism, since 2009).
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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
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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Martha Fajardo is a Colombian Landscape Architect, with a master’s degree in landscape design and a receiver of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt), from The University of Sheffield. She is also an architect. She has over 38 years’ experience in leading national and international roles, playing a key role in establishing the profession in countries all around the globe.
Martha is founder and CEO of Grupo Verde SAS (www.grupoverdeltda.com), a firm dedicated to the professional practice of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism and Urban Design, in the company of the Japanese urban planner Noboru Kawashima.
Former President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), the only professional body representing all landscape architects on a global level. t
She cofounded and was the first President of the Colombian Society of Landscape Architects (SAP), and Honorary member.
She cofounded and chaired the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI), a bottom-up movement with a horizontal, transdisciplinary, and cross-cutting trajectory that brings together civil society, academia, public institutions, and other parties to safeguard the Latin American landscapes.
Martha is at the Board of Directors member of Nature of Cities (TNOC) a creative collective to strive for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.
Julio Gaeta has a PhD in Theory, History and Architecture Criticism from the Federal University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and is a licensed architect from the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Since 1985, he combines his professional practice with academia, working as an architect, professor and researcher focusing on architecture and the city.
In 1991, he founded ELARQA, a research center and publishing house writing on topics related to architecture and the city. Through ELARQA, he has written and edited over a hundred texts about architecture and urban topics.
He is a member and Artistic Creator of the FONCA-CONCACULTA—the Mexican National System of Artistic Creators—, receiving a four-year grant in 2007 and a three-year grant in 2011.
He is Mexico’s Academic Director in Future City Managers and 21st Century Housing Laboratory, joint programs between the Iberoamerican University and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
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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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.
Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Doherty explores and unravels narratives and practices of landscape architecture that have not yet been formally documented. This work is essential to establish the precedents required to diversify the design disciplines and expand upon the limited and limiting traditional design canons. Doherty works in Islamic and, for comparative purposes, postcolonial societies, valuing the everyday and the experiential aspects of landscapes, be they professionally designed or not. Through a grounded research method Doherty calls “landscape fieldwork,” he employs human and environmental audiences as essential components of design and research in complex landscapes.
Doherty bases his work on two questions. First, how can landscape architecture theory, education, and practice benefit from working with societies with no formal landscape architecture discipline? Second, how does comparing landscapes of diverse societies better inform landscape architects’ sensitivity to the values that shape others’ attitudes towards the landscapes they dwell in and make? Doherty addresses these questions through research on designed landscapes across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula, West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Bruno Marques is the president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), a registered landscape architect and a university educator. He completed his Landscape Architecture studies at the University of Lisbon (PT) and Berlin Technical University (DE), followed by his PhD studies at the University of Otago (NZ). He has practised in Germany, Estonia, the United Kingdom and Aotearoa-New Zealand, having an extensive portfolio of built projects.
During the past nine years he has developed a comprehensive research agenda to embrace the formulation of frameworks on landscape rehabilitation, cultural landscapes, place-making and Indigenous community health and wellbeing at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
He currently is the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington and the immediate past Head of the Landscape Architecture Department. Professionally, he has been a long-standing contributor to IFLA since 2008.
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.
