25 - 27 settembre 2008, Barcelona
The 5th European Landscape Biennial: “Storm & stress”, which will take place on September in Barcelona. The Biennial is organized by the Institut of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Master’s Program in Landscape Architecture and the Association of Friends of the UPC), and the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works (Architecture and Landscape General Directionate) of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. Since its first edition, the European Landscape Biennial has expressed its desire to intently study and discuss landscape interventions, as much from the perspective of landscape architecture as from other disciplines that are linked to its study and evolution. After having been consolidated on a European scale in its four previous editions —“Remake Landscapes” (1999), “Gardens in Arms” (2001), “Only with Nature” (2003), and “Landscape: a Product / a Production” (2006)—, this fifth edition of the Biennial will include the participation of a non European Country so that we can become more familiar with new landscape design realities around the world. Barcelona will open itself to landscape in a symposium that will be set at some of the city’s most exceptional sites. This symposium will last three days and will include talks, presentations by those finalists competing for the Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize, papers, roundtable discussions, exhibitions and samples from which we will be able to track and discuss the evolution of landscape design in Europe and in the country being included in this year’s edition: the United States of America. Info: tel +34 93 3067800/371 fax +34 93 4122395 e-mail: 5biennal@coac.net; www.coac.net/landscape