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Curators & Participating Studios · 14 Countries

The following teams represent a global network of expertise, selected for their deep connection to the Mediterranean-type climates showcased within the Barcelona Botanical Garden. All fourteen contemporary teams work within Mediterranean or homoclimatic climate regions — a curatorial principle that connects each designer's proposal to the specific ecology of the Botanical Garden where their model will be situated.

Global Homoclimatic Regions

These areas group landscapes that, despite being thousands of miles apart, share a Mediterranean climate. Each studio has been paired with the sector of the garden that mirrors their home region:

Australia

South & West Coast

McGregor Coxall(Landscape Architecture & Urban Design)

Peter Stutchbury Architecture (Architecture)

Troppo Architects (Architecture)

South Africa

The Cape Region

Gareth Doherty / Local Community (Landscape & Community Practice)

Tarna Kilzner / TK Landscape Architecture (Landscape Architecture)

California, USA

James Corner / Field Operations (Landscape Architecture)

Adam Greenspan / PWP Landscape Architecture (Landscape Architecture)

Phil Harris / Terremoto (Landscape Architecture)

Walter Hood Design (Landscape Architecture & Public Art)

Northern Mediterranean

Southern Europe

Catherine Mosbach (France) — Bringing the vision of the French coastline.

Eastern Mediterranean

Italy to the Caucasus and the Levant

Doxiadis+ (Greece) — Architecture and urban design from Athens.

Jala Makhzoumi (Lebanon) — Landscape architecture and ecology from Beirut.

Southern Mediterranean

North Africa

Abdul-Halim Jabr (Egypt) — Architecture and urban transformation.

Louafi Landschaftsarchitekten (Algeria/Berlin) — Representing Algerian heritage and landscape.

Western Mediterranean

Iberian Peninsula, Balearic and Tyrrhenian Islands

Rubió i Tudurí, Artigas, and Dufy and the institutional framework of the UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture.