Lecturers
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.
Lecturer 3
Bertrand Le Boudec is an architect and currently lectures at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture. He has been awarded with L'Envers des Villes grant. ln 1995 he founded Atelier Traverses in association with Hélène Izembart, landscape architect. Their major works include the marine park on the island of Tatihou, in the English Channel, and the gardens of the Brazilian Embassy in Paris. Their published research works include Mémoires de paysages (2000), Le canal de la Somme (2003); and Waterscapes (2003); the latter deals with the treatment of wastewater by vegetal systems.
Lecturer 2 and 3
Principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects, Michel Desvigne has been designing landscapes for 19 years. He graduated initially from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Lyon and then from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage at Versailles Throughout his career and in current projects, Michel Desvigne collaborates with the world's leading architects, including Paul Andreu, Sir Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas Renzo Piano, I. M. Pei, Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Bernard Tschumi... Michel Desvigne teaches an researches at ENSP in Versailles, the "Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale" in Lausanne, the "Institut d'Architecture" in Geneva, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. ln 2000, Michel Desvigne received the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and in 2003, he was nominated for the "Grand prix de l'urbanisme".
Lecturer 2 and 3
João Gomes da Silva (Lisbon, 1962) studied landscape Architecture at the University of Evora (1979-1985). Since 1990, he has lectured at various universities and schools: Technical University of Berlin, National School of Landscape Architecture at Versailles, the University of Girona and the University of Brasilia, among Others. ln 2001, he was chosen as member of the jury for the Grand Prix du Paysage, of the French Ministry of the Environment. Since 2000, he has been Vice President of the APAP (Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects).
Lecturer 3
Martin Knuijt (1966), landscape architect. Martin Knuijt is one of the four founders of OKRA, a prominent landscape architecture office in The Netherlands. Before OKRA he has worked for several years as designer in a team of Urban Planners and Landscape Architects with the municipality of Rotterdam. He is mostly active as designer in urban and landscape development projects on a wide range of design assignments. These vary from abstract plans and long-term visions for the development of landscapes and urban spaces to detailed designs for spatial organisation and architectural objects. The emphasis within this package is on visions and landscape and urban development projects. Recently, he has made studies on spatial use and mobility studies in the urban network. He is author of a couple of publications, including the book “Modern Park design: Recent trends”, together with Hans Ophuis and Peter van Saone.
Lecturer 3
Architect DPLG, Urban Planner SFU. Born 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, France; works in Paris, Barcelone, Luxemburg, Baltimore USA Most important projects: French National Library, Paris, France; Olympic Velodrome and Swimming pool, Berlin, Germany; APLIX S.A.- Industrial manufacturing facility, Nantes, France; Great Extension of the European Court of Justice, Luxemburg (studies in progress); Las Teresitas seafront and village, Tenerife, Spain, (studies in progress); Two office and hotel towers on the "Diagonal" in Barcelone, Spain, (studies in progress). State Acedmic Mariinsky Theatre, Second stage, St Petersburg, Russia, (studies in progress). 1997 Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award for European Architecture for the French National Library. Since 2000 member of the Urbanism Committee of the City of Barcelona, Spain.
Lecturer 3
Perejaume lives and works in Sant Pol de Mar and in the Montnegre hills. His work brings together literary and visual practices. Painting, writing and long walks have contributed in his body of work to a redefinition of the art of landscape, as corroborated by exhibitions such as "Postaler" (1984), "A 2.000 metres de pintura sobre el nivell del mar" (1988), "Galeria Joan Prats, Coll de Pol-Cim del Costabona" (1990), "Girona, Pineda, Sant Pol i la Vall d'Oo" (1997), "Bocamont, Ceret, Figueres, el Prat, Tarragona i Valls" (2000), "L'obra de Granollers" (2002) and "Retrotabula" (2003).
Lecturer 3
Architect and urban planner (Bennett Faculties, Rio de Janeiro, 1981). Master's degree in Housing, Planning and Building (Institute for Housing Studies, Rotterdam, 1984). Director of Urban Designs and President of the Municipal Urban Planning Institute of the Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (1993-2000) during which time she participated in the management of the emblematic urban rehabilitation programmes "Rio-Cidade" and "Favela- Bairro”. She is currently working as an Urban Development Adviser.
Lecturer 2 and 3
Joaquim Español is an architect and staff lecturer at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). His joint work with Francesc Hereu has been recognised by various exhibitions, prizes (FAD Prize for Architecture, 2nd European Prize for Public Space) and publications, the most recent of which is “F. Hereu-J. Espanol. 10 anys d'Arquitectura”. ln his research he has explored fields such as formal languages (1973 National Architecture Prize) and form construction techniques (1996 Extraordinary Doctorate Prize). He has published articles, monographs and books, including: El orden fràgil de la Arquitectura, Invitación a la Arquitectura and Arquitectes en el paisatge, and two volumes of poetry, which have also received prizes. He is now Director of Urban Plans and Designs of Barcelona City Council.
Lecturer 3
The architect Joan Ganyet Solé headed the Council of La Seu d'Urgell for twenty years, and has made a name for himself for his defence of nature as a fundamental means for the development of the High Pyrenees. Since 1983, he has devoted much of his work to improving the social reality of mountain towns by means of his intense political activity (Member of the Catalan Parliament, 1980-1995; Senator for Lleida in the Spanish Parliament, 1995-1999). In 2003 he was appointed Correspondent Scholar for La Seu d'Urgell of the Royal Catalan Sant Jordi Fine Arts Academy.
