10th Biennial 2018

Rui Yang
Rui Yang
Professor and Joint Founder Dean of Landscape Architecture Department, Tsinghua University. As the head of the Group of Experts, presided over the "The 11th National Five-year Plan for Protecting National Natural and Cultural Heritage",and more than 10 General Managment Plan for natural and cultural heritage sites in China. His Ph. D. thesis "Improving the National Park and Protected Area System of China：Theories and Practice" won the first prize of Tsinghua University's excellent doctoral dissertation, which played an important role in the creation of National park system in China.
Nina-Marie E. Lister
Nina-Marie E. Lister
MCIP, RPP. Graduate program director and associate professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University, Toronto. Founding principal of the PLANDFORM studio, she also founded and directs the Ecological Design Lab at Ryerson University. Member of the Ryerson Urban Water Centre. Awarded Honourary Membership in the American Society of Landscape Architects.She is co-editor of Projective Ecologies and The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability, and author of more than 40 professional practice and scholarly publications.
Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl
Architect, Founding Partner of Gehl Architects, and Professor emeritus The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. He has published several books, including the most recent “How to Study Public Life”. As part of Gehl Architects, he has collaborated on projects for the cities of Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Riga, Amman, New York and Moscow, among others. Honorary fellow of the Architects Institutes in Denmark, England, Scotland, USA and Canada. Awarded with the ”Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Town Planning” by The International Union of Architects as well as honorary doctor degrees from Universities in Edinburgh, Halifax, Varna and Toronto.
Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud
Theoretician of art and aesthetics. He currently directs the La Panacée contemporary art center in Montpellier. Until 2015 he was director of l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. Co-founder, and from 1999 to 2006 co-director, of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Founder and director of Documents sur l'art (1992-2000) and correspondent in Paris for Flash art (1987-1995). He was Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art in Tate Britain, London (2007-2010), being responsible in 2009 for the Tate Triennial.
Liu Xiao

Student of Landscape Architecture in Southwest Jiaotong University

Ma Jiaxing

Student of Landscape Architecture in Southwest Jiaotong University

Niyongwei520

Xining, China

Beijing Forestry University

Michael Jakob

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.

IrisAcqua \ Corten Garden

Gorizia, Italy

DD\M Architects

Julio Gaeta

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. 

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