Rosa Barba Award: International Jury

Michel Desvigne

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’.

 

Michel Desvigne

Principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects. He initially graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Lyon and then from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Landscape Architecture in Versailles. Throughout his career and on current projects, Michel Desvigne collaborates with the world's leading architects, such as 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 de Lausanne, the Geneva Institute of Architecture 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 d'Urbanisme.

Ramón Pico

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.

Esteban Leon

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.