Rosa Barba Award: International Jury
Jury Rosa Barba 7
Kathryn Gustafson was born in the state of Washington, USA, and was educated at the University of Washington in Seattle, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the Ecole National Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles where she received her diploma in 1979. Kathryn Gustafson brings over 25 years of distinguished practice to Gustafson Porter. Her award-winning work includes a widely known series of projects in France, and recently acclaimed projects have ranged throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Kathryn's design work has been predominantly civic, institutional, and corporate. Projects have ranged in scale from a tenth of an acre to 150 acres, including parks, gardens, and community spaces. Two partner offices, Gustafson Porter in London and Gustafson Gutrie Nichol in Seattle, continue to evolve the design approach of Gustafson's work into new contexts of time, culture, and nature. Kathryn Gustafson is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture and a medalist of the French Academy of Architecture. She is the recipient of the ASLA Design Medal, the Chrysler Design Award, London's Jane Drew Prue and the Arnold W Brunner Memorial Prize for Architecture 2012.
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She is an architect, graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) in 1980. In 1985 she obtained a Diploma from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Landscape Architecture. She has been a professor of Architectural Projects Design at ETSAB since 1987. She has also taught in the Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture at the UPC. She began her carreer as an architect of the Barcelona City Council's Elements and Urban Projects Service, during the period 1981 to 1986, carrying out several projects in the public space. Since 1985 she has been sharing professional activity with Pere Joan Ravetllat Mira, with whom she has carried out several projects, both in the field of housing, as well as in the area of facilities or public space.
EMF landscape architecture, Estudi Martí Franch, is an interdisciplinary practice of independent experts in the field of urban and environmental design. EMF is made up of landscape architects, architects, planners, biologist and civil engineers. EMF explores hybrid ways between ecological systems & cultural constructs to inform projects and build up new realities that challenge the established policies. Since 2001 Franch bridges practice with teaching at Barcelona’s School of Architecture Master in Landscape Architecture and other worldwide school. EMF has received numerous prizes among them the 7th European Biennial Landscape Award and an ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) Honour Award.
Jury Rosa Barba 8
Her most recent books include Sunburnt: Australian Practices of Landscape Architecture and Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Making Sense of Landscape. Ware is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Prof Leon van Schaik and Prof. Ware were recently were awarded an ARC Discovery grant; (DP 110100939) Design practice research: uncovering the role of spatial intelligence in designing the built environment for $150,000 AUD. In 2013/14 she was awarded a $47,000 grant to develop a new Master of Landscape Architecture program across 6 universities in New Zealand and Australia. She is currently a visiting professor and scholar at ETSAB and Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage – Versaiiles (ENSP-V) for 2014.
Jury Rosa Barba 8
Agronomist engineer teaching at the Master of Landscape Architecture DUOT (UPC).
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Desiree Martinez is a Landscape Architect who graduated from the Technical University of Munich. She was president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) from 2010 to 2014. Through her firm PAISAJE RADICAL, projects and research on landscape architecture, urban design and environmental management. She has taught at the master program in Landscape Architecture of the Iberoamerican University in León Guanajuato, Mexico.
Jury Rosa Barba 8
Ricard Pié Ninot received the Ph.D. in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). He is Full Professor of Urbanism and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture of the Vallès (UPC). From 2005 to 2008 he was the first Director of the new School of Architecture of Malaga (EAM). In the year 2003, he was awarded the Catalonian Town Planning Prize, for the Revision of the Master Plan of Torroella de Montgrí. He has led with Josep M. Vilanova the Territorial Sectorial Housing Plan for the Housing Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Jury Rosa Barba 9
Eduardo Cadaval is a founding partner of Cadaval&Solà-Morales. Architect from the Universidad Nacional de México and MBA from Harvard University. Associate Professor since 2006 in ETSAB, UPC. His work has won many international awards including among others: Bauwelt Prize (Munich), Young Architects Award from the COAC (Barcelona), Design Vanguard Award (New York), mention of young architecture of the IX Spanish Biennial of Architecture (Madrid), Silver Medal of the XI Biennial of Mexican Architecture (Mexico City), VIII Biennial of Ibero-american Architecture Award (Cádiz) and International FAD 2016 award (Barcelona). Cadaval has also been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Barcelona program at the University of Calgary, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Career Discovery of Harvard University program and the Boston Architectural Center.
Jury Rosa Barba 9
Anuradha Mathur, an architect and landscape architect, is Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department, University of Pennsylvania. In collaboration with her partner Dilip da Cunha she is author of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001), Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006) and Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009), and co-editor of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). In 2011 and 2012 Mathur and da Cunha curated an international symposium titled In the Terrain of Water, held at PennDesign. (http://terrain.design.upenn.edu/about). In 2013/2014 they led a PennDesign Team for the project Structures of Coastal Resilience supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (www.structuresofcoastalresilience.org).
Juray Rosa Barba 9
James Corner is an internationally renowned landscape architect. Based in New York City, his firm’s projects include New York’s widely acclaimed High Line; Seattle’s Central Waterfront; Tongva Park in Santa Monica; London’s South Park Plaza at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; Chicago’s Navy Pier; and the new Presidio Parklands in San Francisco. He is known for a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature. James has been published and exhibited internationally, and has been recognized with significant design awards, including the National Design Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Daimler-Chrysler Award for Design Innovation.
