13th Biennial 2025

Licensed in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPCBarcelona Tech). Holds a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA, 2003) and a Master's degree in Urbanism Research (MIUrb, 2014) from the same university. Has been awarded multiple times with scholarships, such as the Mies van der Rohe Foundation Scholarship (Venice, Italy; 2001), the Caixa d'Arquitectes Foundation (2002), and the Villa LeNôtre Fellowship for Professional Landscape Architects in Versailles (Paris, France; 2016) at ENSPV International Residences for Landscape Architects. The latest recognition received was the appointment as the Luigi Einaudi Chair at the Institute of European Studies (IES) at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA; 2019). Her professional practice has unfolded at Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris), the Research and Landscape Projects Center (CRPPB led by Rosa Barba, at UPC), and, since 2003, in her own professional practice NABLABCN based in Barcelona, focusing on planning, landscaping, and architecture. She is the Executive Director of the Landscape Architecture Office at the College of Architects of Catalonia and a member of the Executive and Scientific Committee of the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona. She is also an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC-BarcelonaTech, affiliated with the School of Architecture (ETSAB) and the Department of Urbanism and Territorial Planning (DUOT), as well as the new degree in Landscape Architecture (ESAB + ETSAB). She has given lectures, moderated sessions, or participated as a jury at RMIT Europe, Nanjing and Chengdu University in China, AHO in Norway, Versailles in France, or POLIMI in Milan, Italy.

Member of the Scientific and Executive Committee of the Biennial since its 8th edition.

Coordination and organization of the team (from the 4th edition of the International Landscape Biennial to the current one).

Michele ORLIAC and Miquel Batlle are architects, graduated from ENSAT Toulouse and ETSAB Barcelona, respectively, and landscape architects from ETSAB Barcelona.
They founded the architecture, landscape and territorial studio mICHELE&mIQUEL in 1998, in Toulouse, Barcelona, and Taiwan.
Among their projects,
The Niel Toulouse Garden, The Figueres Water Park, Cap Roig L'Ampolla, The Hortus Valflaunes wine cellars, The Treffort-Cuisiat Fairground, The Longues-sur-Mer Battery site, the Wallon-Marcadau refuge, The Mas-d'Agenais center, and The Cloup d'Aural Phosphate mines Bach.
mICHELE&mIQUEL have won various awards like:
-La Medaille d’architecture, Roux-Dorlut, Académie d’Architecture 2024
-Pour The Dark Line, Premio 19e bienal arquitectura Buenos Aires 2024, Grand prix AFEX Architectes Français Export 2023, ARC Grande-Bretagne Best Landscape Lighting Scheme 2024, LILA Landezine International Landscape Award 2023, FAD 2023, premio Metalocus 2023, Premio BEAU 2023 Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Grand prix du Design Landscape Québec 2023, World Landscape Architecture Merit Award, Australia
-Pour les caves viticoles Hortus, prix national français construction bois 2020,
Prix européen Mies van der Rohe finaliste 2019,
-Pour le Jardin Niel, prix FAD 2017, Prix BEAU Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2018, prix Equerre d’Argent 2018, finalistes,
-Le Parc des Eaux Figueres, premio international FAD 2011

The dark line

Jury School Prize 7

Dr Charles Anderson is a landscape architect and artist with over thirty years of experience making work, exhibiting, publishing, and teaching around the world. He has a distinguished reputation as an artist and designer and has received numerous awards for his work from across the art and design professions. Charles is founding director of CAStudios incorporating Stutterheim /Anderson Landscape Architecture (SAALA) and is Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture at RMIT University, where he is also the Higher Degrees by Research Delegated Authority in the School of Architecture and Urban Design. His wide-ranging and collaborative practice, research and pedagogy engages human-non-human entanglement and situated knowledge(s) to reconceptualise and reconfigure formations of terrestrial habitation.

Jury School Prize 8 and 9

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.

Rosa Barba Jury 11

Kongjian Yu is a Chinese ecological urbanist, urban planner and landscape architect, professor of landscape architecture at Peking University (PKU) and the founder of the planning and design office Turenscape in Beijing. 

Eulàlia Gómez-Escoda is an architect (ETSAB) and holds a PhD in Urbanism (UPC-Barcelona TECH).

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism, Territory and Landscape (DUTP) of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC), where she has been teaching and researching since 2008 and has been the Deputy Director of International Relations since 2021.

She has been invited to teach at international schools such as KU Leuven School of Architecture, Universiteit Antwerpen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts KADK, German University in Cairo, Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile, TEC de Monterrey in Mexico and the Graduate School of Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University. She was a design critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (autumn 2019).

She has collaborated with Ruisánchez Arquitectes and BAU Arquitectura i Urbanisme on urban design and public space projects throughout Europe.

She is co-author of research works related to Barcelona, such as Barcelona Metropolis (preliminary work and analysis for the development of the new Metropolitan Urban Master Plan, DHUB 2014-2015) or Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future. Reality vs. Project (commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Eixample Cerdà, CCCB 2009). Her research has been presented at international conferences and published in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Urban Design and Urban Planning, among others.

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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.

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