Credits

The curational team

Marina Cervera

Project Director

CEO of NablaBCN and director of the Barcelona International Landscape Biennial. Cervera brings experience in curating large-scale international landscape and architecture events, with a focus on interdisciplinary practice and civic engagement.

James Hayter

IFLA Past President

Past President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects and founding partner of Oxigen. Hayter connects the project to the global landscape architecture community and brings decades of experience in cross-cultural practice and professional leadership.

José Luis Cortés

UIA Past President

Past President of the International Union of Architects. Cortés provides the institutional reach and authority of the world's principal architectural federation, ensuring the project's position within the official Barcelona 2026 architectural programme.

NablaBCN Studio SCP

Exhibition design

NablaBCN Studio is a Barcelona-based practice specialising in architecture, landscape and urbanism. Winners of the New European Bauhaus Prize for their design of the Carrer Girona Green Axis — one of Barcelona's landmark public space transformations — the studio brings a deep understanding of the relationship between city, nature and the built environment to the spatial design of Parlour Gardens.

Montse Cortés

Graphic Design & Video

Montse Cortés (Montblanc, 1987) is a technical architect, interior designer and neuroarchitect. Trained at the Barcelona School of Building Engineering and later specialising in ephemeral architecture and interior design, she has worked across exhibition design, television set design and integral renovations. In 2024 she completed a degree in Neuroarchitecture, combining her interest in spatial experience with the science of how people perceive and inhabit space. Her work for Parlour Gardens brings together graphic communication, video and a deep understanding of space as something to be lived.

Helia García

Green Advisor

Helia García is a landscape architect with over 26 years of professional experience. She co-founded Liquidambar with her siblings before going on to establish Verdalis in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and later leading the landscape division at Tierra Ingeniería y Paisajismo, applying rigorous technical standards to gardening, green roofs and vertical gardens. Her advisory role in Parlour Gardens brings this accumulated expertise to the selection and care of the living species that animate each ceramic model.

Barcelona 3D Ceramics

Ceramic Production

Martí Baltà Martí Baltà (1982) is a ceramicist and designer who leads Barcelona 3D Ceramics, a studio specialising in direct ceramic 3D printing. Combining craft knowledge with advanced technology, he has transformed his family workshop into a benchmark in the field, collaborating with artists, designers, architects and research teams.

Enric Sancho

Plant Species & Living Garden Advisory

Cultidelta Enric Sancho is a horticulture expert and technical director of Cultidelta, a company based in Amposta specialising in Mediterranean plant species. A passionate advocate for plants that are both beautiful and resilient, he understands gardening and landscape design not as an aesthetic luxury but as an environmental and psychological necessity. His deep knowledge of water-conscious planting makes him an ideal partner for an exhibition rooted in the living Mediterranean landscape. Exhibition plant sponsor.

Lotema Montatges

Installation, Dismantling & Transport

Lotema Montatges specialises in the conception and execution of exhibitions and events, offering tailored solutions for each project from initial idea through to final installation. Their expertise ensures that every element of Parlour Gardens is assembled and presented with precision, care and lasting impact.

Special Acknowledgement

The photographs of the jardí de saló painted by Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí and produced by Ceràmiques Serra are reproduced with the kind permission of the Serra family. This piece — completed by Rubió i Tudurí in the final months of his life, at the request of the 1980 Fundació Joan Miró exhibition — stands as his last creative work.