Lecturers

Born Gran Canaria, 1951. He is an architect, founder and director of Gabinete PRAC, specialising in environmental restoration projects. Main works: Canary Garden; Music Park; Maspalomas Ecomuseum; Coastal Park of Las Salinas de Bañaderos; Cultural Station of Tindaya; Guiniguada Project.

Born 1943. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich in 1970. Since 1974 he has worked independently as a landscape architect and for about 15 years as a partner in Werkgemeinschaft Freiraum Nürenberg. Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich.

Born Rotterdam. He studied landscape architecture at the Agricultural University of Wageningen and graduated in 1985. Between 1985 and 1994 he worked as a landscape architect for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Fisheries. Guest professor at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and the Larenstein International Agricultural College in Velp. ln 1994 he and ecologist Sjef Jansen founded the office of VISTA in Amsterdam.

Born Barcelona, 1963. Graduated in Economical Sciences from the UAB. Specialist in rural and regional economy. Member of the Spanish Agrarian Economists Association. He currently plans and manages the project Anella Verda as Director of the Natural Environmental Service and Territorial Planning of the Barcelona Regional Council He is director of the magazine “Area. Debats Territorials”.

Dinamarca  1952-2018. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1980. He founded his own landscape architectural office in 1987. Main works: remodelling of the outskirts of Kronborg; Elsinore; Herning Town Square, Herning; Island of Museums, Roskilde; Calsberg Brewery, Valby; European Film College, Ebeltoft. Awarded with NYKREDIT architectural prize in 1993. He is chairman of the editorial board of the Landscape magazine.

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Born in Oldenburg (Germany), 1937. He began his apprenticeship as a gardener in 7954, gained his master's degree at Hohenheim in 1961 and studied Gardening and Landscape Design at the Kassel Academy of Arts. Recently he has designed the urban spaces and landscape schemes for Postdammer Platz, Berlin, the Preussische Herrenhaus Park and the Residence of the Federal Council. Since 1989, he has lectured in Open Space Design at the University of Kassel.

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Born in Tarragona, 1950. Graduate architect from the ETSAB lecturer on the master's degree course in Landscape Architecture at the UPC He is Director of the Territorial Service of Urbanism and Territorial Planning of Tarragona and, from 2000, General Director of Town Planning. Main works: co-designer of the General Plan for Cambrils and Altafulla; Partial Industrial Plan for Riu- Clar, Tarragona; Partial Residential Plan for Sant Ramon, Tarragona, and Partial Territorial Planning for the Terres de l'Ebre.

Lecturer 2

Born in 1956. Graduate from the ENSP, Versailles, in 1982. ln 1988, she founded her own office with Michel Desvigne. Among her works: Port Marianne Area, Montpellier; the TGV train stations in Valence, Avignon and Marseilles; Sieroterapico Park, Milan; Millennium Park, London; Middelheim Museum, Antwerp; Museum of Modern Art, Kirchberg. She has lectured at the ENSP in Versailles, Genoa Institute of Architecture and the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio.

Lecturer 2

Born in Jerusalem. Graduate from the University of California, BLA, in 1963, and from Harvard University, MIA, in 1966. He founded his office in Jerusalem in 1969, bringing together landscape architects, architects and urbanists. Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem from 1979 to 1985; guest lecturer on several occasions at Harvard University. He was Chairman of the Landscape Architects Association of Israel from 1991 to 1998.

Lecturer 2

Born in 1957. Graduate in Architecture from the ETSAB in 1984 and master's degree in town planning management from the UPC in 1988. Co-ordinator of the Open Spaces Area of the Diputació de Barcelona. He was manager of the Institute of Town Planning and Local Activities. From the year 2000 he is co-ordinator of the Area d'Espais Naturals de la Diputació de Barcelona.