Suggestioni da Barcellona

Abstract

More entries, more participants, much industrial heritage and two winners again. These are the first initial findings of the fourth Biennale for Landscape Architecture in Barcelona. However, the Biennale is in particular a meeting of landscape architects from all over Europe, with each other, and with that special town along the Catalan coast. The Biennale happened in March 2006 was mainly focused on transformation and the influence of heritage; from all projects seemed also to appear that many things in the European landscape architecture have become very similar. Too much formwill, too much use of fashionable materials and too many tricks. Two are the winners: Park Piedra Tosca in Spain, was praised for the extraordinary way in which the designers had opened up the volcano landscape literally and figuratively; Harnes Lagune in France, for the good combination of nature development and water management.