Luis Ribeiro holds a degree in Landscape Architecture Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. PhD from the University of Massachusetts, USA (1997) in which he defends a dissertation on 'The Cultural Landscape and the Uniqueness of Place: a greenway heritage network for landscape conservation of Lisbon Metropolitan Area'. He is a founding partner of TOPIARIS (1988), coordinating large scale projects in different geographical contexts, such as the Municipal Master Plan for M’Banza Congo in Angola (2013) and the Sovereigns Park in Luanda, Angola. He works regularly with Island Planning Corporation in landscape design projects, such as “Citè de La Democratie”, in Libreville, Gabon, and in competitions for residential projects in Switzerland. He is an expert in restoration of historical gardens, and has coordinated relevant projects, such as the Tropical Botanical Garden of Lisbon, the Santana Gardens (headquarters of the Azores Regional Government) and the António Borges Gardens, both in Ponta Delgada, Azores. He lectures Landscape Theory, Planning and Design at Instituto Superior de Agronomia since 1999. He heads the Masters and PhD programs in the Landscape Architecture Department, and was a faculty member from 2009 to 2013. He is co-founder of the Research Center for Landscape Architecture Professor Caldeira Cabral. He is a regular invited lecturer at University of Massachusetts, where he was awarded in the 6th Fabos Conference (2019) for the excellence of his work on Greenway planning and design. He also lectures in Escuela Gallega del Paisaje / Fundación Juana de Veja (University of Santiago de Compostela / Universidade de Galicia), Czech University of Life Sciences, and the University of Milan / University of Genoa. Luis Ribeiro is a member the Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects and co-founder of the Portuguese Greenways Association. He publishes regularly in several journals in Europe, USA, South Korea and China since 1987.
