6th Biennal 2010

Lecturer 6

Senior partner with “Shlomo Aronson Architects”. Educated at the FH Weihenstephan (BLA ‘87) and Harvard University (MLA ‘91) she worked in Germany before settling in Jerusalem in 1994. She is the design partner in charge of projects including urban master and town planning, landscape design of airports, roads, train lines, parks, and urban plazas. She has been teaching at the “Bezalel Academy” in Jerusalem and lectured and participated in symposiums, workshops and juries in Europe and Israel. She received several honours and prizes for her studies and office work, including an “American Society of Landscape Architects Professional Award”, 2005.

Lecturer 6

Professor of Theory of Irreversible Processes in the Physics Department at the Universitat de Barcelona. Created and oversees the “Metatemas” series published by Tusquets Editores, an important collection for scientific thought which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2008. From 1991 to 2005, he directed “la Caixa” Foundation’s Museu de la Ciència, a pioneering institution worldwide. From 2005 to the end of 2009, he served as Director of “la Caixa” Foundation’s Àrea de Medi Ambient i Ciència and currently works as “la Caixa” Foundation’s Science Director. In 2007, the Generalitat de Catalunya presented him with the St. George Cross. Has published a hundred or so research papers on many different subjects including thermodynamics, mathematics, biophysics, microbiology, paleontology, entomology, scientific museology, and philosophy of science. His most recent books are: A más cómo, menos por qué (2006); El Gozo intelectual (2007); Yo, lo supérfluo y el error (2009).

Jury Rosa Barba 6

Consultant Landscape Architect. President, European Federation for Landscape Architecture Vice-president (Europe), International Federation of Landscape Architects. Past-president, Landscape Institute Nigel is a chartered landscape architect specialising in landscape management. He practices as an independent landscape consultant specialising in contract administration and project implementation but also works part-time for the award-winning practice of Rummey Design and Rummey Environmental based in London, UK. Having served the Landscape Institute in a variety of roles, he played an instrumental role in how the LI approached its work in higher education, careers promotion and the professional practice examination. He was elected president of the European Federation for Landscape Architecture at the beginning of 2010. He works and teaches both nationally and internationally and regularly gives talks, seminars and lectures on behalf of the profession around the world.

Jury Rosa Barba 6

Architect from the School of Architecture of Valencia from 1977. Professor of Projects from 1994 to 1999. Professor of the Department of Urban Planning in the Landscape Project from 2003 to the present at ETSAV. Referring to the landscape discipline has organized: Seminar "La Riqualificazione del Bosco di Finizio del Piano di Citulo"; Seminar "Thinking the Landscape"; “International Landscaping Days” held at MUVIM; Workshop on the Turia River Metropolitan Park held at the CEA; Organizer of the “Landscape of Landscapes” course; Organizer and teacher Workshop La Xara, Denia, "Urban planning and design from landscaping"; “1st Landscaping Meeting. Valencia 2009”. Referring to the dissemination of landscaping: since February 2007, editor and coordinator of the monographic landscape magazine of Paisea. As of May 1, 2009, editor and coordinator of the new monographic magazine by countries paiseaDOS.

Lecturer 6 and 9

Dirk Sijmons worked at several Ministries and the State Forestry Service. In 1990 he was one of the founders of H+N+S Landscape-architects. H+N+S received the Prince Bernard Culture award in 2001. In 2002 he received the Rotterdam-Maaskant award. His book publications in English are: Landscape (1998), Greetings from Europe (2008) and Landscape and Energy (2014). Sijmons was appointed first State Landscape Architect of the Netherlands (2004-2008). He held the chair of Environmental Design (2008-2011) and that of Landscape Architecture (2011-2015) at the TU-Delft. Dirk Sijmons was the curator of IABR-2014 with the theme Urban-by-Nature.

Position: Architect MAA MDL, company owner. Education: Lic. arch. (PhD), School of Architecture in Aarhus, 1996. Mas­ter of Architecture from the landscape department, School of Architecture in Aarhus, 1983. Trusted positions: President of The Royal Danish Academy for Fine Arts, and Chairman of the board, 2007. Chairman for the Jury of the Royal Danish Acad­emy for Fine Arts and the Artist Society, 1998-2000. The Jep Fink Foundation for Architecture and Crafts, board member, 2005-2007. Appointments, founds and grants: Prags Boulevard Nominee for Mies van der Rohe price and appointed for Fieldwork, 2007. The Venezia Biennale of Archi­tecture, 2000. A 3-year national grant from The Danish Art Foundation 2000-2002. The Danish institute in Rome 1991 and 1994. Positions, tutoring and research: Assistant Professor, School of Architecture in Aarhus, 1996-2002. Research candidate as PhD-student, School of Archi­tecture in Aarhus, 1991-1995.