Juries
Maria Goula
Jury 2025 /
cals.cornell.edu/maria-goula
Maria Goula is a Director of Graduate Studies and a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. She is a licensed Architect and a Landscape Architect with a Ph.D. in Landscape Design Theory. For over 20 years she taught and worked professionally in Barcelona, Spain. She develops research on coastal tourism, with a focus on […]
Read MoreSotiria Kornaropoulou
Sotiria Kornaropoulou is a senior architect & partner at 51N4E, where she has been contributing to the firm’s wide range of projects since 2006. About her work at 51N4E, she says: “I got to grow along with the office and help structure our hunch that architectural practice is about shaping the outcome as much as it is about […]
Read MoreMartin Rein-Cano
Jury 2019 / Jury 2025 /
Topotek 1
topotek1.de
Martin Rein-Cano was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He studied Art History at Frankfurt University and Landscape Architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He trained in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco. In 1996, he founded TOPOTEK 1. He leads a wide variety of international projects […]
Read MoreFrançois Vadepied
Jury 2025 /
Wagon landscaping
wagon-landscaping.fr
François Vadepied, landscape architect, is Wagon landscaping co-founder. He got an initial diploma in geophysics at IPG of Paris and cartography at the IGN. In 2003, after fifteen years in the digital cartography field, he decided to radically change his work. He graduated as a landscape architect in ENSP Versailles in 2007. Since 2018, he […]
Read MoreLisa Diedrich
Lisa Diedrich is the LILA 2023 Honour Award Winner. Prof. Dr Lisa Diedrich (b. 1965, Minden, Germany) studied landscape architecture, architecture, and urbanism and has a certificate in journalism. Her teaching record spans over two decades and comprises various landscape architecture programmes at universities in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Argentina and Australia. She […]
Read MoreCatherine Mosbach
Jury 2019 / Jury 2021 / Jury 2024 /
mosbach paysagistes
www.mosbach.fr
Catherine Mosbach is behind Paris based office Mosbach Paysagistes – winner of LILA 2018 office award. Their project Phase Shifts Park won LILA for public projects in 2020- In 2018, the jury wrote: “Catherine Mosbach is an outstanding and talented creative force who pushes the profession beyond excellence, revealing hidden layers of designing and also […]
Read MoreLilli Lička
Lilli Lička is a Professor of Landscape Architecture as well as a Consultant, Jury Member and Activist. She focuses urban development, outdoor spaces, and parks. 1991—2016 partner at koselička. Lička leads the Institute of Landscape Architecture (ILA) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), where she teaches, conducts research, publishes articles and books, and organizes events related to landscape architecture, contemporary […]
Read MoreJoost Emmerik
Joost Emmerik is a garden and landscape architect. Joost searches for a serene simplicity, combining clear lines, robust materials and luscious planting into places that grow more exuberant over time. A firm belief in the evoking power of gardens and a need for them in this day and age form the basis of his work. […]
Read MoreHannah Schubert
Jury 2023 /
Bureau B+B Urbanism and Landscape Architecture
bplusb.nl
Hannah Schubert studied Town Planning a the University of Amsterdam and the Humboldt University in Berlin. After her Bachelor, she conducted a research master in Metropolitan Studies, both at the University of Amsterdam as well as the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Upon her return to the Netherlands, she started working as an editor at […]
Read MoreLuigi Latini
Luigi Latini is a landscape architect and teaches Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Arts at the Iuav University in Venice. He has conducted research on landscape and gardens at the University of Florence, where he was awarded a PhD in Landscape Design in 2001; he has been associated with the Fondazione Benetton […]
Read MoreJoão Nunes
The general coordinator of PROAP is João Nunes, born in Lisbon in 1960. Graduated in Landscape Architecture from Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Master in Landscape Architecture from Escuela Tècnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcellona, Universitá Politecnica di Catalunya. As International Director is responsible for the strategic, executive and tactical leadership […]
Read MoreRobin Winogrond
Jury 2020 / Jury 2022 /
Robin Winogrond
robinwinogrond.ch
Robin Winogrond is a landscape architect and urban designer born and educated in the USA. She is co-founder of Zürich-based Studio Vulkan – winner of LILA 2019 Office Award. Besides her work in the office, she is teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Here is the interview we did with Robin Winogrond in […]
Read MoreSarah Cowles
Jury 2022 /
Ruderal
ruderal.com
Sarah Cowles is the Director of Ruderal, based in Tbilisi. Ruderal is a landscape architecture and planning studio focused on the emerging development markets in the Caucasus region. For Cowles, every site project is a forum to negotiate and invent new relationships of culture and ecology. She leads multidisciplinary teams to realize complex landscape-focused projects […]
Read MoreMarianne Levinsen
Jury 2021 /
Marianne Levinsen Landskab
mariannelevinsen.dk
Marianne Levinsen is one of the most prominent Danish landscape architects of her generation. Her architectural practice embodies a contemporary awareness of the environmental and social challenges in our urban spaces, combined with a comprehensive knowledge of the material and conceptual dimensions of landscape design and urban planning. Since starting her own office in Copenhagen […]
Read MoreMartí Franch
Jury 2017 / Jury 2021 / Jury 2023 /
EMF Estudi Marti Franch
www.emf.cat
Martí Franch of EMF Studio won the first ever LILA office award in 2016. In 2020, his project Girona Shores won LILA in infrastructure category. In 2021, he is for the second time in the LILA jury. Landscape Architect by the University of Greenwich and Horticulturalist by ETSAB in Barcelona, is the founder & principal […]
Read MoreAndrew van Egmond
Jury 2021 /
Andrew van Egmond
andrewvanegmond.com
Born in Canada and raised in The Netherlands, Andrew is the founder of Andrew van Egmond / Designing Garden & Landscape. Andrew worked for the Dutch company OKRA Landscape Architects for 11 years. His work on a wide range of national and international projects at OKRA created a solid foundation for his conceptual and context […]
Read MoreChloe Humphreys
Jury 2021 /
The Landscape Studio
thelandscapestudio.com
The Landscape Studio is an award-winning landscape design firm, working in East Africa, Europe and the UK. Throughout the years, we’ve had the privilege to contribute to a diverse array of projects, initially across East Africa and more recently in Europe. Our expertise includes the design and planning of academic institutions, residential developments, religious, corporate […]
Read MoreGert-Jan Wisse
Gert-Jan Wisse is a landscape architect, one of the directors of Bureau B+B, a well known Dutch office. The office won LILA 2019 ex-aequo in public project category with project Objets Trouvés. See this interview we did with Gert-Jan a year or so ago.
Read MoreJoan Roig Duran
Jury 2020 /
www.batlleiroig.com
Architect since 1981 by the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB. That same year he associated with Enric Batlle and Durany forming the company BATLLE I ROIG ARCHITECTURE. Since then until today he has developed multiple projects in the fields of landscape building and planning. His business work at the helm of Batlleiroig […]
Read MoreHanneke Kijne
Jury 2020 / Jury 2022 /
morelandscape.nl
Hanneke Kijne is head of the Landscape Architecture department of the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. In 2019 she founded MORE landscape. She was project leader and head designer for various HOSPER projects and one of the owners of HOSPER from 2006-2019. Besides that, she is a member of the “beauty commission” of the city […]
Read MoreJenny B. Osuldsen
Jenny B. Osuldsen, graduated with a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 1991 and has also studied landscape architecture and art at Cal Poly University Pomona, Los Angeles, USA. She has been working in Snøhetta since 1995 and is one of six partners in Snøhetta. She is a Professor […]
Read MoreShane Coen
Jury 2019 /
www.coenpartners.com
Shane Coen is the Founder and CEO of Coen+Partners. His work for Lake Marion Private Retreat won LILA 2018 in garden category. Last year’s jury recognized the project as: “an outstanding way of bringing residents to nature, due to its simplicity and the way it allows for exploration. An ordinary site was curated and transformed by Coen+Partners into […]
Read MoreGeorges Descombes
Jury 2019 /
www.superpositions.ch
Georges Descombes (Superpositions), together with Atelier Descombes Rampini won LILA 2018 for their project Renaturalisation of River l’Aire in Switzerland. The jury wrote: The project answers questions related to reintroducing nature into artificial landscape and dealing with landscape in rural-urban fringes. It reactivates the old river channel for visitors, masterfully combining new modest elements and […]
Read MoreThorbjörn Andersson
Jury 2018 /
thorbjorn-andersson.com
Thorbjörn Andersson has practiced landscape architecture since 1981, having studied landscape architecture, architecture, and art history in Sweden and the United States. He is probably most known for his work in the planning and design of public spaces in the city. A selection of these projects, which have received awards and international attention, were published […]
Read MoreGary Hilderbrand
Jury 2018 Gardens /
www.reedhilderbrand.com
Gary Hilderbrand (FASLA FAAR), the 2017 winner of the American Society of Landscape Architects Design Medal, is a principal of Reed Hilderbrand Associates LLC, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught seminars and design studios since 1990. His firm […]
Read MoreKristine Jensen
Jury 2018 /
www.kristinejensen.dk
Kristine Jensen is the owner and creative director of Arkitekt Kristine Jensens Tegnestue in Aarhus, DK. With a background in executive landscape architecture, academic research and teaching at Aarhus School of Architecture, Kristine Jensens has a hearty insight and strong experience in landscape architecture and planning. Since 2017 Kristine has been a professor at The […]
Read MoreAna Kučan
Jury 2018 Gardens / Jury 2023 /
Studio AKKA
akka.si
Dr. Ana Kučan is a professor of landscape design and theory at the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a principal of Studio AKKA. After graduating in landscape architecture at the University of Ljubljana, she continued her studies in urban design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard […]
Read MoreSylvia Karres
Jury 2018 /
www.karresenbrands.nl
Sylvia Karres (1956) studied landscape architecture at the Rijks Hogere School voor Tuin- en Landschapsinrichting (State College of Gardening and Landscaping) in Boskoop and at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. She has previously worked at Bureau Maas, as well as for the Province of North Holland, and for ten years as a designer and […]
Read MoreTeresa Moller
Jury 2018 Gardens /
teresamoller.cl
Teresa Moller has been working in the field of Landscape Architecture for almost 40 years. She strongly believes in the power of simplicity. For her, a careful observation and awareness of the landscape is the key for developing social-culture projects and bringing nature accessible to people. The most important aspect of her work is to […]
Read MoreJacqueline Osty
Jacqueline OSTY is a landscape architect working in Paris. A graduate of the national landscape architecture school of Versailles, she founded her own office in 1983, renamed in 2007 Atelier Jacqueline Osty & Associés (AJOA). She teaches at the National Landscape Architecture School (ENSNP) of Blois, France. Known for her ability to translate landscape as […]
Read MoreMarc Pouzol
Jury 2018 Gardens /
lebalto.de
Born in 1966 in Bourg-la-Reine 1984-87 vocational school diploma as agricultural technician, option garden and green area 1987-89 École d’Architecture Paris-La Seine, intermediate diploma in architecture 1990-94 École du Paysage in Versailles, State Diploma Landscape Architecture (DPLG) 1994 diploma thesis in Berlin 1995 Entry in the Journal Officiel, France 1995-99 employee in the office Sprenger, […]
Read MoreKen Smith
Jury 2018 /
kensmithworkshop.com
Ken Smith is one of the best-known of a generation of landscape architects equally at home in the worlds of art, architecture, and urbanism. Trained in both design and the fine arts, he explores the relationship between art, contemporary culture, and landscape. He is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, as […]
Read MoreKarin Standler
Jury 2018 Gardens /
www.standler.at
Karin Standler founded a technical office for landscape planning based in Vienna/Austria. Apart from the planning and site supervision of landscape architectural projects, she manages research and planning projects aiming at promoting the high-quality development of open spaces and landscapes (e.g. EU projects, Leader+, Interreg projects, urban development competitions, school building projects as well as […]
Read MoreKathryn Gustafson
Jury 2017 /
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol + Gustafson Porter+Bowman
www.ggnltd.com
Kathryn Gustafson brings over 35 years of distinguished practice to her partnerships in two offices: Gustafson Porter + Bowman in London and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) in Seattle. As an internationally-acclaimed landscape architect, Kathryn is renowned for creating distinctive sculptural landscapes which engage at a fundamental human level. As a Founding Partner of Gustafson Porter […]
Read MoreKai-Uwe Bergmann
Jury 2017 /
BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
big.dk
Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a Partner at BIG who brings his expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Kai-Uwe heads up BIG’s business development which currently has the office working in 20 different countries as well as overseeing BIG’s Communications. Registered as an architect in the […]
Read MoreChih-Wei G.V. Chang
Chih-Wei G.V. Chang is an Associate at SWA Group and Co-Chair of ASLA International Practice Professional Network (PPN), facilitating knowledge exchange and international collaborations. He is a member of Environmental Water Resource Institute (EWRI) at ASCE, and his practices have been focusing on integrated landscape solutions for environmental challenges. Mr. Chang believes landscape architecture is […]
Read MorePerry Lethlean
BLArch MDes Urban Design PhD RMIT Adjunct Professor RMIT University FAILA ASLA Perry is internationally recognised as a leading contemporary landscape architect and urban designer. His work is widely published, particularly his successful entries for major national and international design competitions including the National Arboretum in Canberra and the University of Sydney. His skills in […]
Read MoreRobert Schäfer
Jury 2017 /
founder of Topos Magazine + Freelance Journalist
Robert Schäfer, founder of Topos Magazine studied Landscape Architecture and Journalism, founded Topos in 1992 and was in charge of Garten+Landschaft since 1984. He currently deals with landscape issues and is supporting Landezine.
Read MoreZaš Brezar
Jury 2020 / Jury 2021 / Jury 2022 / Jury 2023 / Jury 2024 / Jury 2025 /
landezine.com
Zaš Brezar (1984) is a Slovenian landscape architect and founder of Landezine – Landscape Architecture Platform. Graduated from the University of Ljubljana, he spent several years as a practising landscape architect before founding Landezine in 2009. In 2016, he co-founded the LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award. He has given lectures at universities and symposia in […]
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