The next speakers in our ‘Thinkers and Doers’ series is Roberto Rovira (Studio Roberto Rovira and Florida International University) presenting “People, Place and Ecologically-informed Design”.
This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 8 July 2020 at 8am NZ time (or 7 July – 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York, 9pm London).
To attend this lecture, please register through this weblink 👉https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucu2urDkjE9M-Zk1UXj1cw8hk_gUiqFEV
Abstract:
Principal of Studio Roberto Rovira, Associate Professor, and Chair of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design at Florida International University in Miami, Roberto Rovira will share a series of design and research projects whose approach tries to connect cultural and natural factors in their built and conceptual form. As a landscape architect with a design, engineering, and fine arts background, his teaching, research, and creative works ultimately come back to people, place, and the fertile intersections where these meet.
Bio:
Roberto has received recognition for his work as an educator and professional by prominent organizations like the ASLA, the CELA, the Architectural League, the AIA, and others. Fast Company magazine recently selected his EcoAtlas Project as a World Changing Idea finalist and he was recognized with an Emerging Voice award by the Architectural League in New York, one of the most coveted awards in North American Architecture. Roberto has been lead designer in national and international projects and his work ranges from environmental installations and competitions, to art commissions and landscape architectural projects.
About:
‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the NZILA Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington