Rosa Barba Award: International Jury

Principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects, Michel Desvigne has been designing landscapes for 19 years. He initially graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Lyon and then from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles. Throughout his career and on current projects, Michel Desvigne has collaborated with the world's leading architects, including Paul Andreu, Sir Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, I. M. Pei, Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Bernard Tschumi... Michel Desvigne teaches and researches at the ENSP in Versailles, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the Institut d'Architecture in Geneva and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2000, Michel Desvigne received the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and in 2003 he was nominated for the ‘Grand prix de l'urbanisme’.

Ramón Pico Valimaña.He was born in El Puerto de Santa María, 1966, Spain. He has been an architect since 1991 and has a doctorate in 2011 from the ETSA of Seville. He is a PhD Professor at the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition of the University of Seville, to which he has been attached since 1997.

He has been invited to the universities of Lund (Sweden), Nancy (France), Milan Polytechnic (Italy), Tongji (Shanghai) and SUJUST (Miangyang, China).

Since 2003 he is co-director of the Master's degree in design Design for Society organized by the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville) in collaboration with the Glasgow Polytechnic and the Glasgow School of Arts.

He has received numerous distinctions, his work being collected in numerous exhibitions and publications, among which are Bauwelt, Garten + Landschaft, Arquitectura Ibérica, Detail, METALOCUS, Quaderns, On Diseño, AV, Pasajes, Arquitectura, Diseño Interior... He has been dean of the College of Architects of Cádiz from 2007 to 2011.

Head of the Resilience Profiling Program for Cities, UN-Habitat, he has a background in economics, shelter/housing and settlement program design and management, capacity building, as well as building constructions and reconstruction projects in post-crisis situations and urban resilience building. He has been working for UN-Habitat since 2002 based in Nairobi, Geneva, Panama and Barcelona.

Born in Barcelona, 1955 ETSAB-trained architect. He is Director of Public Space Services of the Council of Barcelona Municipalities and a member of the Technical Team of the Barcelona Metropolitan Territorial Planning Commission. From 1982 to 1992 he was Director of the Territorial Area of Granollers Town Council. He drafted the General Plan of Granollers and various planning and project designs for public space.

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.

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Born in Oldenburg (Germany), 1937. He began his apprenticeship as a gardener in 7954, gained his master's degree at Hohenheim in 1961 and studied Gardening and Landscape Design at the Kassel Academy of Arts. Recently he has designed the urban spaces and landscape schemes for Postdammer Platz, Berlin, the Preussische Herrenhaus Park and the Residence of the Federal Council. Since 1989, he has lectured in Open Space Design at the University of Kassel.

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Born August 9th, 1961 in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine, France). Study landscape in DPLG (ENSP Versailles). He is co-founder and co-editor with Catherine Mosbach of the review Paysages Pages since 1986. Directs Phusis atelier, landscape architects in Paris since 1990. He is Landscape architect in the National committee since 1995. Associate professor of the National School of nature and landscape of Blois from 1999. He is also a delegate of the FFP at IFLA Europe Region.

Landscape architect from the Instituto Superior de Agronomía. Master in Landscape Architecture at Massachusetts University. He has further studies at Harvard University. PhD in History of the Art of Gardens at the University of Lisbon (ISA). She is director of the Doctoral Program in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology (Universities of Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto). He is a co-owner of the studio ACB - Landscape Architecture. Member of the Scientific Committee Int. of Cultural Landscapes ICOMOS / IFLA. Has directed important restorations of historic gardens and founded the Ass. Portuguesa de Jardines y historical sites.