Lecturers

Gilles Vexlard

Lecturer 2 and 7

Landscape Architect, co-founder with L. Vacherot landscape architect DPLG of Latitude Nord Studio, one of the most awarded Landscape professionals (National Grand Prix in Germany, in France and 1st «International Urban Landscape Award»), Professor at ENSP in Versailles.

Marieke Timmermans

Lecturer 1 and 7

Marieke Timmermans educated as a landscape architect at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (1994). ln 1998 she founded the agency Landscape Architects for Sale (LA4sale) with Pepin Godefroy. Since 2008, it will focus as Director of Indewei BV on building development in the landscape. She is Head of the department of Landscape at Academy of Architecture Amsterdam.

Antonio Presti

Lecturer 8

Antonio Presti is a Sicilian artist-patron, who decided to dedicate his whole self for the triumph of art and culture in all its forms. President of the Foundation Fiumara d’Arte, has been engaged for years in Italy and around the world to create awareness related to culture, but above all a spirit of ethics, which is formed through a different relationship with their beauty. Among the initiatives: the creation of the park of sculptures in the Valley of the Nebrodis in Sicily Fiumara d’Arte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Atelier sul Mare (Castel di Tusa, ME), etc.

Ramon Torra

Ramon Torra is an architect from the ETSAB (1980). He is manager of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area since July 2011 (between 2008 and 2011 called the Association of Municipalities of the AMB). CEO of IMPSOL since October 2008. He has been a municipal architect and Director of Territorial Services at the Granollers City Council (1982-1992).

As Director of Technical Services of the Association of Municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona, ​​the projects developed under his direction that have received different professional recognitions: FAD Awards in different editions, Catalonia Construction Award 2007, ATEG 2002 Awards, International Prize Barbara Cappochin 2005 (Padova), Prize AIA Continental Europe 2000, Construmat Prize 2007, II Rosa Barba Landscape Prize 2000 and 2002, among others.

He drafted different planning figures, such as the General Plan for Granollers, Partial and Special Plans among others, as well as various public space and architectural projects.

 

Francesc Muñoz

Lecturer 8

Francesc Muñoz. PhD in Geography and Professor in the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1995. He is specialized in urban design and design of territorial strategies; he has participated in different tasks of European Council related to these questions. Now, he is director of the Observatory of Urbanism and the Master of Interventions and Landscape Management, both in the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Yael Moria - Klein

Lecturer 8

Yael Moria-Klain is a Professor of landscape architecture at the Technion – The Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. She is a practicing landscape architect and is partner at Moria-Sekely Landscape Architecture, the firm behind many of Israel’s major urban landscaping projects. Moria-Klain is a researcher and curator in the architecture and public space field. She received her master’s degree in Architecture & Urban Culture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Enric Granell

Lecturer 8

Born in Barcelona in 1955. Enric is architect and professor of History of Art and Architecture in the School of Architecture of Barcelona. He has curated several exhibitions. He has many texts published in magazines: Carrer de la ciutat, Insula, Rey lagarto, Dyonisos, Arquitecturas bis, Casabella, etc.

Claude Eveno

Lecturer 8

Urbanist, writer. Former editor of Cahiers du CCI and Monumental, he was program adviser at France Culture and director of studies at the National School of Industrial Creation and professor at the National School of Nature and Landscape. His publications include: “Un amateur d’architecture”, L’Imprimeur, 1994 “Regarder le paysage”, Gallimard, 2010 “Histoires d’espaces”, Sens & Tonka, 2012 “Un monde avant”, Bourgois, 2013.

Sun Libo - CABP

Lecturer 8

Mr. Sun Libo was born in August 1963. He is senior economist, and won the special allowance of the State Council, the Leading Talents Award of National Press and Publication Administration, now works as Vice President of China Architecture & Building Press.Mr. Sun Libo has been engaged in publishing management for a long time, primarily in charge of production and quality management. He devoted himself to promote the standardization & normalization, openness and fairness in publishing field.

Xiangrong Wang - JCHLA


Xiangrong Wang is professor of School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, founder and principal of Atelier DYJG, vice president of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA) (2008-18), chairman of Territorial Landscape Committee, CHSLA, vice chairman of Education Committee, CHSLA, the editor-in-chief of Chinese Landscape magazine, the founding editor-in-chief of Landscape Architecture journal, and Fellow of Landscape Institute of UK.

He obtained BLA from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University Shanghai in 1983, MLA from School of Landscape Architecture of Beijing Forestry University in 1986, and Dr.-Ing. from the Dept. of Urban and Landscape Planning at Kassel University, Germany, in 1995.

He has published a total of 22 monographs, edited books and translations. His practical projects have won 2 Honor Awards in Planning and Analysis category and 1 Honor Award in Landscape Design category from American Society of Landscape Architects, 1 award and 3 shortlisted mentions from Landscape Institute(UK), 10 National Landscape Awards from British Association of Landscape Industries, 22 Planning and Design Awards from International Federation of Landscape Architects APR/AAPME, 4 First Prizes and 7 Second Prizes for Planning and Design category from CHSLA and more than 10 other awards.
 

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