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11th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona


The 11th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will be held online and will discuss solutions to address climate change mitigation with professionals and activists of landscape and architecture 

The contest, which will take place from the 27th of September to the 2nd of October, will be held virtually.

It will include a symposium, the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award and the International Landscape Schools Award - Banco Sabadell Foundation.

The motto of the symposium "Climate change, again: City and Nature", highlights the use of landscape as a tool to face the climate emergency.

Among the 42 experts who will attend the Biennial are the American landscaper and climate activist Martha Schwartz, the French writer and gardener Gilles Clément, and the architect author of Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, Michael Van Valkenburgh.

From the 27th of September to the 2nd of October, 2021 a new edition of the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona will take place, which will host the symposium "Climate change, again: City and Nature" to reflect on the importance of landscape in reducing climate change, as well as the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award and the International Landscape Schools Award - Banco Sabadell Foundation.

The event will bring together professionals and experts in landscaping and architecture in a congress that has become a reference on an international scale. The symposium will have 8 renowned guests who will explain tools to face the climate emergency, the authors of the 11 finalist landscape projects of the prestigious Rosa Barba International Landscape Award and, last but not least, representatives of the 8 finalist schools of the Award. Landscape Schools International.

During the Biennial, the Book-catalogue of the 10th International Landscape Biennial held in 2018 will also be presented. The UPC School of Architecture (ETSAB) will host the exhibition of the finalists of both awards.

The event is FREE but registration in advance is compulsory.

More information here.

Earlier Event: September 3
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020
Later Event: September 27
IFLA Americas Regional Conference