Rosa Barba Award: International Jury
JURY ROSA BARBA 10
Michael Jakob teaches History and Theory of Landscape at hepia, Geneva, and aesthetics of design at HEAD, Geneva. He is a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. He is, at the same time, Professor of ComparativeLiterature (Chair) at Grenoble University. Jakob’s teaching and research focus on landscape theory, aesthetics, the history of vertigo, contemporary theories of perception and the poetics of architecture. He is the founder and head of COMPAR(A)ISON, an International Journal of Comparative Literature and the chief editor of “di monte in monte”, a series of books on mountain culture (Edizioni Tarara’, Verbania). He produced several documentary films for TV and has a longstanding experience as a radio journalist. Michael Jakob published recently: 100 Paysages, Infolio, Gollion 2011; asp Architecture du paysage, Infolio, Gollion 2012; Mirei Shigemori e il nuovo linguaggio del giardino giapponese, Tarara’, Verbania 2012; the swiss touch in landscape architecture, Tarara’, Verbania 2013/ Ifengspace, Tianjing 2015; La poétique du banc, Macula, Paris 2014/ Sulla Panchina, Einaudi, Turin 2014/ The Bench in the Garden, Oro Editions, Bay Area 2017; Cette ville qui nous regarde, b2 éditions, Paris 2015/ Dall’alto della città, Lettera 22, Siracusa 2017.
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities.
She is a chairwoman of the landscape without the border IFLA APR, TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow. She received her master's in landscape architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
Kotchakorn is featured in 2019, TIME 100 Next, —that spotlights 100 rising stars, shaping the future of the world and 15 women fighting against climate change from TIME Magazine. She was named BBC100 Women, the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg and got an award from United Nations as Winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results.
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Martha Fajardo is a Colombian Landscape Architect, with a master’s degree in landscape design and a receiver of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt), from The University of Sheffield. She is also an architect. She has over 38 years’ experience in leading national and international roles, playing a key role in establishing the profession in countries all around the globe.
Martha is founder and CEO of Grupo Verde SAS (www.grupoverdeltda.com), a firm dedicated to the professional practice of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism and Urban Design, in the company of the Japanese urban planner Noboru Kawashima.
Former President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), the only professional body representing all landscape architects on a global level. t
She cofounded and was the first President of the Colombian Society of Landscape Architects (SAP), and Honorary member.
She cofounded and chaired the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI), a bottom-up movement with a horizontal, transdisciplinary, and cross-cutting trajectory that brings together civil society, academia, public institutions, and other parties to safeguard the Latin American landscapes.
Martha is at the Board of Directors member of Nature of Cities (TNOC) a creative collective to strive for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.
Julio Gaeta has a PhD in Theory, History and Architecture Criticism from the Federal University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and is a licensed architect from the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Since 1985, he combines his professional practice with academia, working as an architect, professor and researcher focusing on architecture and the city.
In 1991, he founded ELARQA, a research center and publishing house writing on topics related to architecture and the city. Through ELARQA, he has written and edited over a hundred texts about architecture and urban topics.
He is a member and Artistic Creator of the FONCA-CONCACULTA—the Mexican National System of Artistic Creators—, receiving a four-year grant in 2007 and a three-year grant in 2011.
He is Mexico’s Academic Director in Future City Managers and 21st Century Housing Laboratory, joint programs between the Iberoamerican University and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Julio Gaeta has a PhD in Theory, History and Architecture Criticism from the Federal University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and is a licensed architect from the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Since 1985, he combines his professional practice with academia, working as an architect, professor and researcher focusing on architecture and the city.
In 1991, he founded ELARQA, a research center and publishing house writing on topics related to architecture and the city. Through ELARQA, he has written and edited over a hundred texts about architecture and urban topics.
He is a member and Artistic Creator of the FONCA-CONCACULTA—the Mexican National System of Artistic Creators—, receiving a four-year grant in 2007 and a three-year grant in 2011.
He is Mexico’s Academic Director in Future City Managers and 21st Century Housing Laboratory, joint programs between the Iberoamerican University and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Doherty explores and unravels narratives and practices of landscape architecture that have not yet been formally documented. This work is essential to establish the precedents required to diversify the design disciplines and expand upon the limited and limiting traditional design canons. Doherty works in Islamic and, for comparative purposes, postcolonial societies, valuing the everyday and the experiential aspects of landscapes, be they professionally designed or not. Through a grounded research method Doherty calls “landscape fieldwork,” he employs human and environmental audiences as essential components of design and research in complex landscapes.
Doherty bases his work on two questions. First, how can landscape architecture theory, education, and practice benefit from working with societies with no formal landscape architecture discipline? Second, how does comparing landscapes of diverse societies better inform landscape architects’ sensitivity to the values that shape others’ attitudes towards the landscapes they dwell in and make? Doherty addresses these questions through research on designed landscapes across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula, West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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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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Teresa Moller is a well-known Chilean Landscape Architect that has been working in the field for the past 30 years. It has been a self-training journey, working on a variety of projects of different scales. Her work approach is unique, careful observation and awareness of the landscape is key for developing successful social-culture projects. Bringing nature accessible to people so they can connect and value nature around them is essential within her work philosophy. One of the most important aspects before starting a design is to consider what is on site and then what is needed to bring the experience of nature to people. She strongly believes in the power of simplicity. Chile benefits from such contrasting landscapes, wedged between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes mountain to the east; it is a country that offers remarkable natural resources. She considers herself lucky of being able to work with such a diversity of landscapes, from the Atacama Desert to the lakes and glaciers of the south, as they have taught her everything and have been the setting for the majority of the projects in the studio. Every project is a direct and unique result of its environment.
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Kathryn Moore, Immediate Past President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University has published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. Her book, Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (2010) provides the basis for critical, artistic discourse. Her teaching, research and practice, set within landscape architecture have clear implications for architecture, planning, urban design and other art and design disciplines, in addition to philosophy, aesthetics and education more generally. She has taken a lead role in redefining the relationship between landscape, culture and governance, finance, health and community engagement within the context of a radical proposal for a West Midlands National Park, launched in a major international conference held at BCU in June 2018. She is a member of the Independent National Design Review Panel for HS2.
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Walter is the Creative Director and Founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. Hood Design Studio is his tripartite practice, working across art + fabrication, design + landscape, and research + urbanism. He is also a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. Walter designs and creates urban spaces and objects that are public sculpture. Believing everyone needs beauty in their life, he makes use of everyday objects to create new apertures through which to see the surrounding emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies of urban space. His ideas emerge from years of studying and practicing architecture, landscape architecture, and fine arts, and yet Walter tactfully eschews from differentiating between the three on any one project. His projects also highlight. The Studio’s award winning work has been featured in publications including Dwell, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Architectural Digest, Places Journal, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Walter Hood is also a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.
