Maria is Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan Manager for Miami-Dade County. She is the Board Member At-Large for Landscape & Beautification for the City of Coral Gables. Previously, Maria held teaching positions at Florida International University (FIU), Clemson University (tenure-track), Illinois Institute of Technology (tenure-track), NYU, the City College of New York, Penn State and Rhode Island School of Design. She has served on the USGBC South Florida Chapter and as a Regional Director for two regions with the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture(CELA). Maria regularly serves as a design jury member and critic at leading organizations and universities such as WLA, Parsons, Yale, Cornell, Urbana-Champaigne, and more. She is a past visiting artist of the American Academy in Rome, and Rudy J. Favretti Fellow of the Garden Club of America.

Maria holds a Master’s from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a Bachelor’s from Cornell University. With 10+ years of experience in design and planning, research, and teaching her work often involves distilling complex user preferences and sensorial elements into immersive design strategies to improve well-being for people through design excellence, planning, analysis and communication.

Maria’s design, research and teaching has received multiple national American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) honor awards in communication and analysis and planning. Her research-related work has been featured in numerous public exhibitions such as the current exhibit “Landscape Typologies” at Mana Wynwood in Miami and others such as grant-funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Van Alen Institute, and showcased projects with the Rosa Barba International Landscape Biennial exhibition. Maria contributed a chapter on Miami that just came out in Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Global Innovative Solutions (2022). Her previous work has been published in The Making of Place by John Dixon Hunt (2016), Atlas of Landscape Architecture (2017), and the Compendium of Landscape Architecture and Open Space (2018) and three Representing Landscapes books on Analogue, Hybrid and Digital Media.

Maria is Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan Manager for Miami-Dade County. She is the Board Member At-Large for Landscape & Beautification for the City of Coral Gables. Previously, Maria held teaching positions at Florida International University (FIU), Clemson University (tenure-track), Illinois Institute of Technology (tenure-track), NYU, the City College of New York, Penn State and Rhode Island School of Design. She has served on the USGBC South Florida Chapter and as a Regional Director for two regions with the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture(CELA). Maria regularly serves as a design jury member and critic at leading organizations and universities such as WLA, Parsons, Yale, Cornell, Urbana-Champaigne, and more. She is a past visiting artist of the American Academy in Rome, and Rudy J. Favretti Fellow of the Garden Club of America.

Maria holds a Master’s from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a Bachelor’s from Cornell University. With 10+ years of experience in design and planning, research, and teaching her work often involves distilling complex user preferences and sensorial elements into immersive design strategies to improve well-being for people through design excellence, planning, analysis and communication.

Maria’s design, research and teaching has received multiple national American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) honor awards in communication and analysis and planning. Her research-related work has been featured in numerous public exhibitions such as the current exhibit “Landscape Typologies” at Mana Wynwood in Miami and others such as grant-funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Van Alen Institute, and showcased projects with the Rosa Barba International Landscape Biennial exhibition. Maria contributed a chapter on Miami that just came out in Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Global Innovative Solutions (2022). Her previous work has been published in The Making of Place by John Dixon Hunt (2016), Atlas of Landscape Architecture (2017), and the Compendium of Landscape Architecture and Open Space (2018) and three Representing Landscapes books on Analogue, Hybrid and Digital Media.

Chris Bosse founded LAVA in 2007 with Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck. This international network uses the latest research and technology to build efficient, sustainable, and beautiful structures.

Basing his work on the computerised study of organic structures and resulting spatial conceptions, Bosse is a new generation architect who pushes the boundaries of traditional structure and architecture by digital and experimental form-finding.

Whilst Associate Architect at PTW in Sydney Bosse was a key designer of the Beijing Olympics Watercube, winner of the Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale and the AIA Jorn Utzon Award for International Architecture. He received the Emerging Architect RIBA award, in 2012 Perspective’s 40 Under 40 for Asia’s rising design stars and an Australian Design Honour in 2015. LAVA was the 2016 European Architecture Laureate.

Bosse is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Born in Ecuador, Jaime is considered one of the best upcoming Architects in Ecuador and has been a member and a jury on very important architecture awards and festivals worldwide.

Jaime’s diverse portfolio includes high-end residential, commercial, cultural, retail, restaurant and hospitality design, which led him to highly recognized national and international awards.

His work has been published in highly recognized architecture books, magazines and has been the recipient of the Esmeraldas Ornate Prize in 2014, UIDE gold medal for the Quito Biennale 2008, Ecuador Architects in 2015 and 2017 and The Esmeraldas Mayor’s Career Recognition 2018.

He is currently based in Laguna Beach, California, with a satellite office in Cumbaya, Ecuador and planning to expand his work to other locations.

Jose graduated with a Master in Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, New York in 1997 and Bachelors of Architecture from Universidad Cristobal Colon, Veracruz, Mexico in 1993. Jose was a visiting professor at the School of Architecture – Cal Poly Pomona. He is the past chair of the AIA LA Political Outreach Committee, is the President of the L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and is an ambassador for NAHR (Nature Art & Habitat Residency). He is the 2022 John G. Williams Distinguished Visitor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Jose is a registered architect in Mexico and California.

Julie Payette is a Founding Partner of v2com newswire, the first and preeminent international architecture and design newswire service for promoting projects to the world’s largest specialized media network – more than 6,650 media outlets in 97 countries. As an international publicist specializing in design and architecture for more than 25 years, Julie remains focused on the highest standards of design and leads v2com’s relentless pursuit of quality projects and the most promising young talent from around the world. In recognition of her extensive industry experience and expertise, Julie has been selected as a jury member for prestigious international competitions including the Architizer A+ Awards, Frame Awards, Architecture MasterPrize, LOOP Design Awards, and Rethinking The Future. In 2021, Julie received the prestigious Ambassador of Quality in Architecture award, a distinction of the Order of Architects of Quebec (OAQ)

Born in Ecuador, Jaime is considered one of the best upcoming Architects in Ecuador and has been a member and a jury on very important architecture awards and festivals worldwide.

Jaime’s diverse portfolio includes high-end residential, commercial, cultural, retail, restaurant and hospitality design, which led him to highly recognized national and international awards.

His work has been published in highly recognized architecture books, magazines and has been the recipient of the Esmeraldas Ornate Prize in 2014, UIDE gold medal for the Quito Biennale 2008, Ecuador Architects in 2015 and 2017 and The Esmeraldas Mayor’s Career Recognition 2018.

He is currently based in Laguna Beach, California, with a satellite office in Cumbaya, Ecuador and planning to expand his work to other locations.

As a Partner, Nancy Keatinge with Stanley Felderman form the multi-disciplinary architectural design firm, Felderman Keatinge, counting among its clients 19 Entertainment (American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance), Core Media Group, Morris Yorn & Barnes LLP, Pacific Capital Group, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Samsung Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, Elisabeth Murdoch’s company Shine America, BMG Music Publishing, Toledo Federal Courthouse, and designed restaurants for Curtis Stone, Celestino Drago, Joachim Splichal, Alain Senderens and corporate jets for JLH Corporation and Levy & Assoc.

Felderman Keatinge product design includes china and glassware for Sasaki and Venini, furniture for The Gunlocke Corporation, Vogel Peterson, Herman Miller, Interface, Steelcase, and most recently the introduction of the Collaborate series of tables and chairs for Haworth. Keatinge and her team counsel clients that business is in a continuous state of evolution and change. Using strategic intelligence and innovative design, they guide and support their client partners through the revealing process of evaluation, definition, structuring and positioning. Felderman Keatinge was awarded Best Small Office of the Year 2011 by Contract Magazine. Their work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, and Architectural Record.

Peter is a director at Grant Associates, an international award-winning landscape architecture firm and leader in creative ecology, environmental sustainability and innovative landscape design. With 35 years’ experience in landscape architecture his interest is the promotion of design quality and technical innovation through the synergy of landscape, architecture, nature, community and place.

In 1997 Peter joined Grant Associates, working on The Earth Centre, a landmark millennium project and the first visitor attraction based on the ethos of sustainable development. He has particular design and implementation interests relating to sustainable homes and  design principles  that aim to  foster new communities and reconnect people with nature. Peter is currently working on the developing 17-acre Paradise site between Centenary Square and Chamberlain Square, Birmingham and, the major redevelopment of central Tottenham Hale ‘’Heart of Hale’’.

In September 2021 Peter won Gold and Best Show Garden at his debut RHS Chelsea Garden where the Guangzhou Garden provided a narrative promoting green city principles and reconnecting with nature.

Romil is an urban designer and architect with over 15 years of experience in both domestic and international projects. His work encompasses diverse project types including campuses, student housing, K-12 facilities, urban revitalization, innovation districts, and waterfronts. His multi-disciplinary background enables him to connect built work with visionary planning and urban design by engaging a diversity of issues, multiple constituents, and varying scales across a range of contexts. He adopts a collaborative approach to design, working with integrated teams that engage landscape, strategic planning, and architecture.

Romil’s projects consistently have been honored for their integration of implementable visionary ideas, programming strategies, and sustainability, by multiple national awards including the American Institute of Architects, Urban Land Institute, American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Society for College and University Planning.

Romil holds a master of urban design and a master of science in architecture from the University of Michigan, and received his bachelor of architecture from CEPT University in India. He is a registered architect for the Council of Architecture in India and is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects.

Shaohua Di is the founding principal in PRAXiS d’ ARCHITECTURE.   She has been studio and thesis critic for Tianjing University, China Central Academy of Fine Arts and Dessau Institute of Architecture, and taught graduate design studio in Tianjin University.  She was an invited judge for 2020-2022 World Architecture News Awards and 2021 Rethinking Future Awards.

Her design adopts an ingenious and harmonious approach to integrate architecture and its surroundings based on her understandings of the site’s cultural and physical context.  She strives to create extraordinary spatial experiences by using economic, Eco-friendly and local materials and available means of construction. Regardless of project scale, she seeks to fully realize architecture’s practical values while fulfilling it with spirits. Shaohua holds a B.Arch from Tianjin University and an M.Arch and a S.March.S (Urbanism) from MIT.

Nancy Ling is a designer who actively participates in social activities, and an advocate and practitioner of landscape spaces which are rooted in the site and realize the unity of human and nature. Having been working on tourism master planning, residential community master planning, commercial complex master planning as well as urban landscape design for nearly three decades, Nancy has unique insights into creative landscape space design, adaptability of human settlements, sustainable conservation of ecology, trends of global cultural creativity and the inheriting of traditional Chinese culture. Design projects steered by Nancy not only show humanism, but also incorporate modern life ideas and outstanding traditional cultural genes. She used to serve PEDDLE THORP Melbourne and BELT COLLINS Australia, and is one of the first senior Chinese designers who implemented international landscape design concepts in China.
“Accumulating as much as possible and making full preparations before making advances” and “being forbearing and stoic” are Nancy’s tenets.

Titles / Positions:
• Founder, AODE DESIGN GROUP
• Ambassador, Barcelona China-Europe Cultural Festival
• Co-organizer, “Le Corbusier – Modern Architect Giant” Exhibition
• Off-campus postgraduate tutor, Landscape Architecture Program at Guangdong Ocean University
• Member, Industry-Academia-Research-Application Steering Committee for Landscape Design Program at Shenzhen Polytechnic
• Vice Chairman, Stereoscopic Greening Committee of Shenzhen Green Building Association
• Member Representative, Shenzhen Urban Planning Association / Urban Planning Society of Shenzhen
• Jury expert, Tourism Master Planning Project in Shenzhen
• Member, Nanshan Holistic Tourism Alliance
• Member, Committee of Landscape Architecture under the Chinese Society for Urban Studies (CSUS-CLA)
• Jury Expert, Kinpan Awards
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
• Initiator, Dive for Love “Coral Conservation Program”

Accolades:
Red Dot Design Award
China International Landscape Planning & Design Competition (Gold Winner)
National Human Habitat Classic Architectural Master Planning & Design Scheme Competition
China International Architectural Decoration and Design Art Fair (CIDF) Huading Awards
CREDAWARD
ICSC China Shopping Centre and Retailer Awards
Kinpan Awards
REARD GLOBAL DESIGN AWARD
Global Habitat Design Awards
Landscape Ingenuity Award

About AODE DESIGN GROUP
Founded in 2007, AODE DESIGN GROUP is the only branch of LUCAS INTERNATIONAL DESIGN GROUP CO., LIMITED in mainland China. Based in Shenzhen, a city at the forefront of China’s reform and opening up and at the core of the Greater Bay Area, the design practice has gained a good reputation in the industry.
AODE DESIGN GROUP specializes in tourist destination master planning design, urban renewal master planning, landscape & master planning design for residential developments and commercial complexes (including shopping centre, office & creative park, industrial park, etc.), hotel & resort design, elderly-care facility master planning, urban & rural design, characteristic town & theme park design, interior design, and research and development in relevant fields. The team of AODE DESIGN GROUP is committed to building an international design brand, and creating a green, liveable and poetic living environment. With innovative approaches and comprehensive abilities, AODE DESIGN GROUP has won wide recognition among design peers and clients over the years.

Eva Jiricna Founder and Director of the AI DESIGN is a Czech born architect based in London. She studied engineering and architecture until 1962, gaining an MA at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. She moved to London in 1968, working as an architect with the Greater London Council. A year later, she became an associate in the Louis de Soissons Partnership, and later joined Richard Rogers, before forming her multidisciplinary practice, Eva Jiricna Architects, in 1982, operating until 2017. In Prague she opened the office AI-DESIGN with the Czech partner Petr Vagner in 1999. She became well known for the interiors of shops and residential projects and mainly glass staircases but also for her work in Victoria and Albert Museum, Canada Water Bus Station, Leicester Library, Orangery at Prague’s Castle and many others. Her contribution to architecture and design has been recognised with many prestigious awards, including the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) and Commander of the British Empire (CBE). She has been elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, made an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and she has been honoured with Doctorates and Professorships by many Universities. When she won the 2013 Jane Drew Prize for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture, she was described by judges Zaha Hadid and Rafael Vinoly as ‘incredibly influential’ and ‘extraordinary’. In 2018 Eva won the Lifetime Achievement Medal at the London Design Festival.

We are a free community of architects in Munich. Our field of activity includes the new construction as well as the renovation and conversion of historic buildings.In addition to the planning of office, residential buildings and private houses, the design and implementation of hotels with the highest standards are a focal point.Our experience in international project partnerships extends to the Arab world and to the eastern EU countries. Our office is characterized by the international nature of the projects.What the architectural designs have in common lies in their variety and diversity. The architectural form does not develop from recurring themes; rather, it should develop a new, unmistakably from the respective task and the specific location and thus achieve conceptual coherence.This attitude has found recognition in several international architecture awards and successful competitions. Cerno + ArchitektenMunich

Co-founded Creative Crews with Puiphai in 2016, Ekkachan provides a different range of architectural background. Ekkachan’s profession is in pursuit of civic and cultural programe, as is evidenced academically by his degree in Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design from ETH Zurich, as well as in practice since W Architects in Singapore.

At W he was involved in projects encompassing multiple disciplines addressing different scales and contexts, which enabled his multitude comprehension of urban elements in architectural aspect. Personal highlights include the revitalisation of the beloved national heritage; Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall; rejuvenation of the invaluable Sir Raffle’s Collections via Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum. The Educational Resource Centre later became the landmark for Singapore University Town. His recent project, Classroom Makeover for the Blind, has won INSIDE awards for Health and Education.

In parallel with above, Ekkachan also works as an academic. He lectures and serves as studio master at Kasetsart University for urban research and design program, as well as architectural program in Bangkok University. He has recently been invited to judge at the WAF.

Eva Jiricna Founder and Director of the AI DESIGN is a Czech born architect based in London. She studied engineering and architecture until 1962, gaining an MA at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. She moved to London in 1968, working as an architect with the Greater London Council. A year later, she became an associate in the Louis de Soissons Partnership, and later joined Richard Rogers, before forming her multidisciplinary practice, Eva Jiricna Architects, in 1982, operating until 2017. In Prague she opened the office AI-DESIGN with the Czech partner Petr Vagner in 1999. She became well known for the interiors of shops and residential projects and mainly glass staircases but also for her work in Victoria and Albert Museum, Canada Water Bus Station, Leicester Library, Orangery at Prague’s Castle and many others. Her contribution to architecture and design has been recognised with many prestigious awards, including the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) and Commander of the British Empire (CBE). She has been elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, made an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and she has been honoured with Doctorates and Professorships by many Universities. When she won the 2013 Jane Drew Prize for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture, she was described by judges Zaha Hadid and Rafael Vinoly as ‘incredibly influential’ and ‘extraordinary’. In 2018 Eva won the Lifetime Achievement Medal at the London Design Festival.

Susana Rosmaninho is an architect, museologist and cultural producer, based in Porto.

She holds a Master in Museology from the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto.

Since 2014 she has been a researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Centre “Culture, Space and Memory” and develops museological consultancy for various entities.

She has also curated several international conference cycles, including “Container & Content: Intersections between Museology and Architecture” (2014), “From Collections to Architectural Museums: Reflections on the Future Museum(s) of Architecture in Portugal” (2016) and “The Art of Collecting Architecture: From Drawings to Real Estate” (2020…).

Co-founder and director of Contentor e Conteúdo – Cultural Association since 2013, dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of architectural culture and its disciplinary crossings with museology.

Co-founding partner of Rosmaninho+Azevedo – Architects (2015), an office that was awarded several prizes and distinctions, including the nomination for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe 2019, the Jury’s Special Award in the Archizinc Trophy – VMZinc 2018 and Finalist of the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture (AREA) awards 2018.