Landscape Schools Award: International Jury

Jury School Prize 9
Ellen Fetzer holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in landscape planning from Kassel University, Germany. Since 2001 she has been working at the school for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning in Nürtigen (Stuttgart area, Germany). She is primarly coordinating an international master’s degree in landscape architecture (IMLA). The second focus of her work is in the Centre for University Didactics as an e-learning coordinator. Ellen works a lot in the field of computer supported collaborative learning and facilitates online seminars in international cooperations. She is vice-president of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

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.

Jury School Prize 9
PhD Architect and Lecturer (ETSA Barcelona). Teaching Urbanism at the Barcelona School of Architecture since 2001 and invited to universities in Europe and America. Predoctoral Fellowship UPC-DUOT 2001-04 and researcher at the Barcelona Laboratory of Urbanism where he is coordinator and participant in various international projects on urban transformation, ecology and urban metabolism. Former collaborator and assistant teacher to Professor Manuel de Solà-Morales and Current Vice Dean for International Relations in ETSAB. Co-principal in SFCA studio, developing various scale designs, plans and competitions of landscape urbanism and architecture (sfcaa.com).

Jury School Prize 9
Enric Batlle founded in 1981, together with Joan Roig, BATLLEIROIG ARQUITECTES developing Building, Planning and Landscape projects. Master of Landscape Architecture and PhD of Architecture from 2002, is also Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the UPC since 1982. Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture ETSAB - UPC and professor of Architecture Landscape Planning and Architecture Workshop in UPC - ETSAV. His work “El Jardín de la Metrópoli” (Ed. Gustavo Gili, 2011) was awarded with FAD Award in category of Theory and Criticism of Architecture in 2012, among others.

Jury School Prize 8 and 9
Juan Manuel Salazar Palerm is PhD Architect and Head of department of Architectural Design at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He was director of the II and III Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias (2008-2012). Since 2011 he is the director of the Observatorio del Paisaje de Canarias and since 2014 President of the Red de Universidades para la implementación de la Convención Europea del Paisaje (UNISCAPE). Founding member of the study Palerm&Tabares de Nava with his partner Leopoldo Tabares de Nava, they have done several projects of architecture, urbanism and landscape through professional assignments, competitions, exhibitions and publications.

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Timothy Baird, FASLA, PLA is a licensed landscape architect, an ASLA Fellow, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. Baird’s ongoing research focuses on two areas: material expression in the designed landscape since the Modern era and environmental art and designed landscapes that were commissioned in land reclamation contexts.

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Architect DPLG, joined UNESCO in 1982 in the cultural sector for the Arabian region, involving preservation projects for historic monuments and towns, archaeological research and technical assistance in museum development. She has been a programme specialist since 1995, in charge of intersectorial urban projects

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University professor, Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAB / UPC and Director of the Barcelona School of Architecture, UPC.

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Lisa Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer in The Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and a practicing Landscape Architect. She has led on the development of the European Masters in Landscape Architecture for the University of Edinburgh for the last several years and is the Director of this highly innovative programme.

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Prize winner of Trudeau Rechearch Foundation in Canada, Philippe POULLAOUEC-GONIDEC is the holder and the founder of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape at Université de Montreal (Canada). He is also the co-founder of the Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at Université de Montréal (CPEUM).