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).

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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