Jury Chair Gary is a renowned landscape architect, educator, and writer, with a deep commitment to both the history and future of landscape architecture. Since co-founding his practice with Douglas Reed in 2000, Gary has led numerous projects advancing urban forestry, from small plazas to city-scale plans. His current work includes the transformation of New York’s Lever House and an expansion of Storm King Art Center. As the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and current Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department, Gary has taught since 1990. His awards include the ASLA Design Medal, the Rome Prize, and the ASLA Firm of the Year award (2013). In 2016, Design Intelligence named him one of its "25 Most Admired Educators." Gary’s writings, including Visible Invisible (2012) and The Miller Garden (1999), explore how landscape architecture connects cultural tradition with modern urban change. Influenced early on by Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature, Gary brings a lifelong passion for landscape, environmental issues, and design to his work.

Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the Founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture firm that emphasizes innovative solutions to climate change while designing spaces that promote social interaction and community life. Her work explores the intersection of environmental and social issues through design, activism, and research. She is widely recognized as a leading voice in landscape architecture, urban design, and climate adaptation, with a reputation for creating complex, creative, and collaborative projects that address environmental challenges on a global scale.

Orff’s accomplishments include being the first landscape architect to receive the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant in 2017. She was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows in 2019, received a National Design Award in Landscape Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, and was named a “Hero of the Harbor” by the Waterfront Alliance. In 2020, she was honored as Urbanist of the Year by The Architect’s Newspaper, and in 2023, she was named to the TIME 100, a list of the world’s most influential people.

In addition to her design work, Orff is the author of several influential books, including Toward an Urban Ecology (Monacelli, 2016), Petrochemical America (Aperture, 2012), co-authored with photographer Richard Misrach, and contributed to the bestselling anthology All We Can Save (Penguin Random House, 2020), which highlights women climate leaders. Her work has been profiled in top-tier publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Washington Post, among others.

Orff earned her Bachelor’s degree in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia, graduating with Distinction, before completing her Master’s in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). She currently serves as the Director of the Urban Design Program and Co-Director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL) at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). Additionally, she serves on the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Advisory Board for Urban Ocean Lab, a policy think tank.

HUANG Wenjing, AIA, es socia fundadora de OPEN y Kenzo Tange Design Critic en Arquitectura en la Graduate School of Design de la Universidad de Harvard. HUANG obtuvo su licenciatura en Arquitectura en la Universidad de Tsinghua en 1996 y su maestría en Arquitectura en la Universidad de Princeton en 1999. Es arquitecta licenciada en el estado de Nueva York y miembro de la AIA.

HUANG Wenjing y LI Hu fundaron OPEN en Nueva York en 2003 y establecieron la oficina del estudio en Pekín en 2008. Antes de fundar OPEN, HUANG fue diseñadora senior y asociada en la firma neoyorquina Pei Cobb Freed and Partners.

HUANG ha sido reconocida como una de los “50 under 50: Innovadores del Siglo XXI” y como “Diseñadora del Año” en los Wallpaper* China Design Awards 2022. Ha enseñado en varias instituciones, como la Universidad de Tsinghua, la Academia Central de Bellas Artes de China y la Universidad de Hong Kong. Recientemente, HUANG Wenjing y LI Hu coescribieron tres libros sobre OPEN: OPEN Questions (2018), Towards Openness (2018) y OPEN Reaction (2015).

Luis Callejas is a professor of landscape architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and a visiting professor at Harvard University (2023–2026). His research bridges architecture and landscape architecture, focusing on geographic themes shared by both disciplines and on how climate change reshapes design pedagogy. Callejas’ projects span master plans, cities, gardens, and large landscapes, including the exterior renovation of Oslo's former US embassy by Eero Saarinen, the aquatic center for the XI South American Games, and the “El Campin” stadium in Bogotá. In 2022, his studio was chosen to contribute to future Norwegian Scenic Routes projects.

Honored with the Architectural League of New York Prize (2013) and recognized as a top emerging studio by Metropolis Magazine (2016), Callejas has exhibited his work globally at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Lisbon Triennial, the Seoul Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. His publications include Pamphlet Architecture 33 and Pedagogical Experiments for a Changing Climate (2023). Callejas has held teaching and fellowship positions at Yale, Edinburgh, Harvard, and various international universities, and has served on prominent design juries and as a visiting critic at numerous institutions.