Lecturers

Lecturer 2

Architect, DPLG in France, and Master in Landscape Architecture from the ETSAB, where she currently lectures. She is Director of the Architecture, Urbanism and Environment Council of the Eastern Pyrenees, an organisation devoted to projects at Community and regional level, in charge of the activities of the Galerie d'Architecture, exhibitions, design programmes and meetings. Her landscape architect practice is based in Toulouse (France).

Lecturer 2

Belén Gimeno

Teruel, 1968. Graduated as an architect from the ESTA, Valencia. Coordinator of the workshops at Sot de Chera (Spain) and Andria (Italy).

José Manuel Vidal

Valencia, 1951. Graduated as an architect from the ETSA, Valencia. Co-ordinator of the landscape workshops at La Torre/Alpuente, Sot de Chera (Spain) and Andria (Italy).

Lecturer 2

Born in Genoa, 1963. He graduated at the Genoa School of Architecture in 1990. He collaborated with the architect Giancarlo di Carlo in Milan (1990-1993) on the Master Plan of Urbino and the refurbishment of the former Benedictine Monastery. Consultant on projects for the recuperation of river areas in Liguria, where he also teaches courses on environmental engineering and recuperation. He contributes to international architecture and urbanism journals such as Abitare and Spazio Et Società.

Lecturer 2

Born in Buenos Aires, 1939. He is an architect and has been a lecturer at the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of Buenos Aires. He is currently Director of the School of Landscape Design. He has been a consultant to the Buenos Aires Urban Development Secretariat and participated in numerous congresses and seminaries. He has worked as an architect since 1964. He has won several awards in ideas competitions and designed single-family and collective housing and buildings for various uses.

Graduate in Landscape Architecture and professor at the University of Virginia, where she was Department-Chair from 1993 to 1998. She has been a lecturer at the Universities of Harvard and Cornell. She has published numerous articles about modern landscape architecture. She is currently working on the book The Margins of Modernity, about theories and practices of the American landscape. She has served on numerous design juries.

Lecturer 3

Alain Richert (1947) studied Medicine (1971). Until 1978 he has been experimenting in the fields of painting, photography and video, having given numerous exhibitions. He has also studied botany and ornithology, and has been interested in the world of gardens and books and filmography on gardening. He has designed both private and public gardens in historic centres. Adviser to rural collectives, he has given a workshop at the School of Landscape of Versailles, Architecture in gardening. His main concern is to try to relate history, art and science to the creation of gardens.

Lecturer  3

Born in Barcelona in 1968. Agricultural Engineer and Landscape Architect. She has worked since 1989 on gardening and landscaping designs, including the restoration of the Lake of Arriaga in Vitoria, the gardens of Sabadell Art Museum, Cordellas Park in Cerdanyola, the swimming pool of the Son Antem hotel in Majorca, and the restoration of the La Gripia torrent in Terrassa. She is a regular collaborator with the following architects: Tarrassó-Espinas, Eduardo Arroyo, FOA, Abalos y Herreros, Vázquez-Consuegra, Rubiño-Márquez, Coll-Leclerc, Torres-Nadal and Nebot. She gives classes at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM).

Lecturer 1 and 3

Between 1981 and 1988 she worked for Barcelona City Council, where she carried out projects for public spaces such as Joan Mirò Park, the Fossar de la Pedrera, and the Park and El Sot del Migdia. She is internationally known for her projects around Europe: the remodelling of Patrick Street and Grand Parade in the city of Cork (Ireland, 7999), and the historic centres of 's-Hertogenbosch (Holland, 1993-1998) and Dublin (Ireland, 2002). ln Spain she has carried out projects such as the Joan Mirò Library, Zafra Park in Huelva (1994), Salamanca Forum Shopping Centre (1999), the Audiovisual Campus in Poble Nou (2000) and the bathing area of the Forum 2004. She has been a lecturer at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) since 1994.

Lecturer 3

Joan Forgas Coll is an architect (UPC) and professor of the ETSAV, since 1987, leading a professional office together with Dolors Ylla-CataIà. Its projects and works include the Vic COAC, the UV Engineering Schools, the headquarters of the City Council of Prat de Llobregat, the Telecommunications Technology Center of Catalonia, the Kursaal Theater in Manresa, the management of the new Marine Zoo in Barcelona , within the Forum 2004, and the international management contest for the high levels of the Montjuïc Park in Barcelona. These orders have been won through an architectural competition, having won several awards and distinctions.

Lecturer 3

José Antonio Marina is Head of the Philosophy Department for Baccalaureate students. He likes to consider himself a "cultural detective" and is proud of being a good gardener and having invented a new variety of cabbage, called The Empress of Spears. His intellectual project consists of developing a theory of intelligence that begins with neurology and ends with ethics. He is the author of Elogio y refutación del ingenio, Teoria de la inteligencia creadora, Etica para naufragos, El misterio de la voluntad perdida, La selva del lenguaje, El vuelo de la inteligencia, and among others. He is particularly proud of La lucha por la dignidad, written in collaboration with Maria de la Valgoma. He has received numerous prizes: the National Essay Prize, the Anagrama Essay Prize, the Don Juan de Borbón Prize for the Book of the Year, the Agustin Ferret Prize for Journalism, the DMR Economy Prize and the Gine de los Rios Prize for Educational Innovation.