THE ECOLOGICAL MOSAIC
Exploring Interconnections in the Natural World
Lecture for the Assistant Professor position at Cal Poly Pomona
Feb, 2023
IN.MEMORIAL.
2020 SUMMER EXHIBITION FOR LOS ANGELES FORUM FOR ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
EVERY. THING. CHANGES
https://everythingchanges2020.org/Lorena-Garcia
http://laforum.org
IN.MEMORIAL. is a series of vases as street objects for people to present tributes
to their memories, beloved ones, or historic events.
The project is composed of 14 pieces made by using a technique called coiling --
an ancient method to shape clay into vessels. The gestural contours and freewheeling,
robust shapes are inspired by organic outlines of human body and nature, reflecting
the influence of Valentine Schlegel among other ceramists from the 1950s.
These vases are an invitation to the community to rest their memories in the city,
placing flowers to honor their lives and universal feelings concerning public tragic
events. The installation is accompanied by three collages and a visual piece in which
Lorena, starting from Viva´s experiences, navigates through her own map of memories,
along with visions of vases splashed throughout the urban grid, and following the
hypnotizing tunes by Cameron Stallones/Sun Araw.
To my grandmom. To all the people who have lost their lives due to the pandemic and
police brutality. RIP.
BOSQUE ISLA
location: Centro de interpretación de Nuevo Baztán
type: commission
client: private
status: finished
year: 2021
artist: Irene de Andrés
landscape: Lorena García
Photos: Lola Iglesias, Lorena Garcia
La Comunidad de Madrid presenta la cuarta edición de Mutaciones- Intervenciones artísticas
en museos, un programa que fomenta las prácticas artísticas actuales a través de la
investigación y reflexión en torno a los museos históricos gestionados por el Gobierno
regional.
Entre el 14 de mayo y el 25 de julio de 2021, la Casa Museo Lope de Vega (Madrid),
el Centro de Interpretación de Nuevo Baztán, el Museo Picasso-Colección Eugenio
Arias (Buitrago de Lozoya) y la Casa Natal de Cervantes (Alcalá de Henares)
amplían su discurso museográfico al acoger las obras site specific de cuatro artistas
que han trabajado teniendo en cuenta el contexto local, la historia y los públicos de
cada sede.
Comisariada por Lola Iglesias, la edición 2021 de Mutaciones recibe el título "Una
conversación sensible al poder". En ella participan Irene de Andrés, Olmo Cuña, Fernando
García Dory / INLAND y Clara Sánchez Sala. Esta propuesta toma el nombre de una frase que
la experta en estudios culturales y feministas, Katie King afirmaba a finales de los ochenta: “El
conocimiento racional es una conversación sensible al poder”. A través de las artes plásticas
cuatro artistas amplían los discursos museográficos de cada sede con sus obras: generan
microrrelatos que establecen “conversaciones sensibles” con las narraciones de cada museo,
enriqueciendo el discurso oficial.
Irene de Andrés (Ibiza 1986), ha proyectado para el Centro de Interpretación de Nuevo Baztán
(el primer municipio preindustrial de España) una instalación escultórica con una muestra
de la vegetación de los alrededores del arroyo Vega, cuyo cauce fue determinante para la
fundación de este conjunto histórico. Bosque-isla propone una nueva perspectiva, lúdica
y sensorial, sobre la idea de jardín y paisaje a través de la puesta en valor de la genista
o el coscojo, entre otras plantas autóctonas. Colabora PuenteAlameda.
MUSEO REINA SOFIA
Analysis and Master Plan for the Patio de Sabitini
location: Madrid
year: 2019
Lead by: Elisa Rodriguez Laval
Team: Lorena García, Andres Perez, Miriam Rodriguez Peña, Hector Díez de Miguel
PEQUEÑA ANTIMATERIA
https://colectivoantimateria.com/Pequena_Antimateria-1
Pequeña Antimateria es la newsletter del Colectivo Antimateria.
Un espacio entusiasmado, alucinado, constructivo, anti edadista y feminista
donde expandir y romper las ondas de nuestro algoritmo.
Es bimensual, bilingüe -inglés/español-, y en ella diferentes voces comentan
4 cosas que desean compartir con el Universo.
VDO II
location: Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
type: commission
size: 1.500 sq ft
client: private
status: finished
year: 2017
construction: German Quiles
landscape: Lorena García
Photos: Jacobo Campos, Eric Uguet, Lorena Garcia
In.Memorial
https://everythingchanges2020.org/Lorena-Garcia
http://laforum.org
2020 SUMMER EXHIBITION FOR LOS ANGELES FORUM FOR ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
EVERY. THING. CHANGES
IN.MEMORIAL. is a series of vases as street objects for people to present tributes
to their memories, beloved ones, or historic events.
The project is composed of 14 pieces made by using a technique called coiling --
an ancient method to shape clay into vessels. The gestural contours and freewheeling,
robust shapes are inspired by organic outlines of human body and nature, reflecting
the influence of Valentine Schlegel among other ceramists from the 1950s.
These vases are an invitation to the community to rest their memories in the city,
placing flowers to honor their lives and universal feelings concerning public tragic
events. The installation is accompanied by three collages and a visual piece in which
Lorena, starting from Viva´s experiences, navigates through her own map of memories,
along with visions of vases splashed throughout the urban grid, and following the
hypnotizing tunes by Cameron Stallones/Sun Araw.
To my grandmom. To all the people who have lost their lives due to the pandemic and
police brutality. RIP.
GROUND-UP
In. Memorial featured in Ground Up Magazine issue #BREATH
GROUND UP is the award-winning graduate student journal of the Department of
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley.
#2022
PARÁMETROS DEL JARDÍN ESPAÑOL: NATURALEZA, PAISAJE Y TERRITORIO
Dir and Edit: Ana Luengo and Coro Millares
Author: VV.AA
Technical support: Lorena García
Edited by: Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, España, 2007
In the twenty-first century, human being must recognize that mythical nature which subjugated
their life no longer exists. Nature is no longer dangerous: it is in danger. His defense goes beyond the
mere restoration of their functions as an ecosystem, but should include the original aesthetic dignity
that gave the landscape. The real purpose of this publication is to understand and explain the art
of landscaping as a synthesis of a cultural moment that goes back to the beginnings of humanity.
Language: Spanish
LOS PAISAJES CULTURALES PATRIMONIO DE LA HUMANIDAD /
WORLD HERITAGE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Dir and Edit: Ana Luengo
Author: VV.AA
Coordination: Lorena García
Edited by: UNESCO and Elche City Hall, in Madrid, España, 2011
A complete analysis of the World Heritage cultural landscapes declared until 2010.
Language: Spanish/ English
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MADRID-LOS ANGELES
2 cities.
7 artists- 3 in Madrid, 4 in Los Angeles-.
Same Kodak disposable camara.
Same week at the end of April.
A comparative between urban green.
Color.
Texture.
Daily Use.
Pics by Antonio Castro, Antia Moure, Dana Funaro, Eric Uguet,
Jorge F de la Fuente, Lorena Garcia, Nicolas Fuster.
Textos by Andrés Perez and Lorena Garcia.
Cover by Antia Moure; Back cover by Dana Funaro
Design by Lorena García;
Published by PUENTEALAMEDA, Los Angeles, CA, 2014. #30 copies
GARDENING ︎
A compilation of sketches of residential gardens in Los Angeles, CA
Publyshed by PuenteAlameda. Los Angeles, summer 2016. #20 copies
ACADEMIA
LORENA GARCIA teaches across all undergraduate and graduate years levels working with students
on projects focus in fundamentals of design, ecology, resilient landscapes, climate change,
and intersections between art and landscape architecture.
Lecturer at Landscape Architecture Department, College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona
Profesora invitada ar DMAD, Madrid, Universidad Nebrija de Madrid
For more info visit https://portfolium.com/LorenaGarcia21
COURSES
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE of
ENVIRONMENTAL DESING, CAL POLY POMONA
- Fall 2022: LA 4782 Evolving Issues: International Studio Abraod,Italy
- Fall 2022: LA 4873 International Practice. International Studio Abraod, Italy
- Spring 2022: LA2121L_Ecology Design
- Spring 2022: LA3121L_Gathering aroung Silver Lake Reservoi
- Fall 2021: LA1111L_Figure and Ground
- Spring 2021: LA1121L Topographic Form
- Fall 2020: LA1111L Figure and Ground
- Spring 2020: LA1121L Topographic Form
- Fall 2019: LA1111L Figure and Ground
- Spring 2019: LA3121L Gathering around Silver Lake Reservoir
- Spring 2018: LA3121L BREAKING LOTS Transforming parking lots
on public spaces and sustainable systems.
OTHER COURSES
- Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021: Spanish language in Landscape Architecture.
DMAD- SCHOOL OF DESIGN, UNIVERSIDAD NEBRIJA, MADRID
- Dic 2022: Modulo Paisajismo, Master en Global Design, Dmad, Madrid, Sp
- July 2022: Geometria Diferente, Dmad, Madrid, SP
- Jun 2022: Modulo Paisajismo, Master en Global Design, Dmad, Madrid, Sp
- March 2021: Geometria Diferente, Dmad, Madrid, SP
- May 2021: Modulo Paisajismo, Master en Global Design, Dmad, Madrid, Sp
- May 2021: Geometria Diferente, Dmad, Madrid, SP
- January 2021: Geometria Diferente, Dmad, Madrid, SP
- December 2019: Geometria Diferente, Dmad, Madrid, SP
- December 2018: Geometrias Diferentes, Dmad, Madrid, SP
ECOLOGY DESIGN LABORATORY
Spring 2022
2rd year studio-2019
Landscape Architecture Department
College of Enviromental Design
Cal Poly Pomona, CA
https://env.cpp.edu/la/la
LA 2121L is an applied studio design course that integrates design foundations with plants and ecology within a
framework of landscape architectural design methods and processes. This course will address aesthetic
considerations and technical methods associated with utilizing plants and ecology as the basis for design.
This course will explore plants and ecology as a strategic framework for design and as a series of site-scaled
decisions. As strategy, this course will explore concepts of sustainability, resilience and succession and their
influence on ecological design practices and landscape management. At the site-scale, this course will explore
plant selection and planting design in a series of particular applications as it influences performance, use and
experience including the perceptions of space, wildlife habitat and individual and public health. Additionally, this
course will address the basic horticultural and site design needs of planting and the policies and procedures that
guide those decisions within the public realm.
PROJECTS_
1. Tiny Landscapes
2.Gardens of Varietation
3. Site Analysis
4. Conceptual Site Design
5. Planting Design
1. Tiny Landscapes
5. Planting Design
Figure and Ground
Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
1st year studio, coordinated by Rennie Tang and Nina Briggs
Landscape Architecture Department
College of Enviromental Design
Cal Poly Pomona, CA
https://env.cpp.edu/la/la
Fundamental concepts in design and their connection to the discipline of Landscape Architecture.
Emphasis on creative investigation of space and form in relationship to the human scale.
Investigations entail hands-on projects that engage students with the foundational disccourse
of Landscape Architecture.
Projects:
TextScape
To understand figure-ground as a fundamental compositional tool in landscape design, students apply the concepts
of syntax and narrative in a figure-ground composition and learn some basic graphic tools in Photoshop and
InDesign. At a basic spatial design level, learning how to manipulate figure-ground relationships enables
us to guide visual perception which in turn affects people’s experience of a place. This is a fundamental skill
for a landscape designer who strives to enhance human experiences through the shaping of space.
Students research the etymology of theirfirst and last names, write a narrative, and craft photographic figure-ground
compositions of their initials - a syntax of representation and meaning.
TreeScape
Students get to know their assigned campus tree - its species, base of the trunk, roots (if visible), trunk, branches,
leaves and canopy - to understand the TEXTURAL qualities of the tree. By exploring the textures, using all senses:
touching, hearing, smelling, tasting, moving - students experience the tree from all directions and viewpoints
while photographing and sketching it and thsurrounding context. Listening to the tree, students create the tree’s
sonic profile and translate to texture drawing with charcoal- figure-ground compositions - considering
balance and proportion. The tree’s identity is further explored (family, foliage type mature height,
mature spread, light exposure, soil preference, shape and bark), as well as its culture (geographic origins,
cultural associations, culinary or medicinal uses, cultural or indigenous traditions and any notable characteristics)
- culminating in a graphic booklet.
Topographic Form
Spring 2020, Spring 2021
1st year studio, coordinated by Rennie Tang and Nina Briggs
Landscape Architecture Department
College of Enviromental Design
Cal Poly Pomona, CA
https://env.cpp.edu/la/la
LA1121L is the second course within the lower division design sequence. This studio focuses
on the generation of topographic form using a variety of different modeling techniques and
materials. Using an iterative process, we observe and record patterns in the landscape, then
investigate how to translate these patterns into physical form. Investigations emphasize
the generation of 2D and 3D form through spatial operations that are controlled by a
combination of digital and analog tools. Abstract topographic constructs serve as an
introduction to landform, how it guides water flow and how it can be manipulated to create
strong visual, performative, and experiential effects.
“The land we inhabit is an accumulation of past events we can make visible by means of landscape
architecture… It assumes that we think of the discipline of landscape architecture as involving
not only the planting of certain forms of flora or the shaping of geography toward scenic ends
but also the acts of digging, naming, articulating, and otherwise clarifying what already exists.”
– Aaron Betsky -
Occupy Space Unit (OSU)-
Fall 20191st year studio, coordinated by Rennie Tang and Nina Briggs
Landscape Architecture Department
College of Enviromental Design
Cal Poly Pomona, CA
https://env.cpp.edu/la/la
Occupied Spatial Unit (OSU) is an abstract spatial construction that can be occupied
and/or activated by people moving through it or pausing within it. Its purpose is to
invite people to experience the landscape in different, perhaps even unexpected or
surprising ways, using COLOR in specific ways as driven by site analysis conclusions.
During this phase of the project students will be constructing their OSU on site.
NEWS
11/03/2022
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban DesignSaturday, November 5th, 2022 ︎ 5:00 pm
Event Organizers: Lorena Garcia & Monica Lamela Blazquez
Graphic Design: Anne Swett-Predock
The L.A. Forum invites you to Under the Influence, a series of conversations that bring together
international and local architects and designers into conversation where they investigate and expand
on the influence of Los Angeles’ modernist era. Set in curated iconic and modernist spaces in L.A.,
the series aims to engage speakers in provocative dialogue with each other and with the audience.
The first in this series features David Godshall, principal of TERREMOTO, and Wonne Ickx, cofounder of PRODUCTORA.
They will discuss their work, highlighting the influence of L.A.’s modernism on their journey.
They will also address the effect of this period on the City since. This program brings the public into intimate
spaces to ignite a fluid dialogue and further explore the topics initiated by these speakers.
Seats are limited to 25 guests.
Non-member tickets ($25)
Member tickets ($10)
If you are unable to join us, a live broadcast will be available through @laforum_aud
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24/08/2022
Lorena Garcia will be part of the Faculty in charge of the International Studio Abroad in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy.
A semester to explore the landscape, culture and art in Tuscany
Landscape Architecture Departement, College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona
Los Angeles, California
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18/06/2022
Together with Rennie Tang and Nina Briggs, we will be part of the 24 hours of propositions and convertations
about the living in the Biennal of Landscape Architecture of Versailles.
Curator: Gilles Clement and Coloco.
https://bap-idf.com/en/
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11/06/2022
Representing the Spanish Asotiation of Landscapes Architects, Lorena Garcia will be modarated around table at
FORO las CIUDADES 2022
Urban spaces for well-being and sustainability.
Madrid, 2022
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11/03/2021
Happy to share that Wonderland has received the 2021 American Architecture Award by
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture
https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/the-2021-awards/
Lead Architects: Jose Herrasti and Fernanda Oppermann from MUTUO
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Lorena Garcia forma parte del Comité organizador del I Congreso Internacional de Paisajistas AEP,
que tendrá lugar en Granada del 20-22 de Octubre.
+INFO:
I CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE PAISAJISTAS
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Lorena García estará charlando sobre el Contrato de el Dibujante de Peter Greenaway, este miércoles
6 de Octubre a las 19:00, dentro de las presentaciones de la VI edicion de Cine en el Jardin, organizado
por el Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC y la Asociación Española de Paisajistas y comisariado por
Manuel Sánchez, Cruz Calleja y Jesus García.
Para acceder a la presentación: https://conectaha.csic.es/b/jes-wmy-azp-i00
+INFO:
Cine en el Jardin- FILMIN
Asociación Española de Paisajistas
Real Jardin Botánico-CSIC
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09/15/2021
In. Memorial featured in Ground Up Magazine issue #BREATH
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08/25/2021
Lorena Garcia will be lecturing 1st year Applied Design Studio: FIGURE/GROUND at the
Landscape Architecture Department at College of Environmental Design,
in Cal Poly Pomona University, California.
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01/06/2021
Lorena Garcia will be teaching a workshop called Another Geometries at Madrid School of Design
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05/26/2021
El sábado Lola Iglesias (comisaria de Mutaciones 2021) y Lorena Garcia harán una visita guiada
a BOSQUE ISLA, la intalación que Irene de Andrés ha creado para el Centro de Interpretación
de Nuevo Baztán en el marco de Mutaciones 2021.
MUTACIONES 2021
NUEVOS PUBLICOS
IRENE DE ANDRES
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08/22/2020
Lorena Garcia will be lecturing 1st year Applied Design Studio: FIGURE/GROUND at the
Landscape Architecture Department at College of Environmental Design,
in Cal Poly Pomona University, California.
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08/08/2020
IN MEMORIAL is a series of vases as street objects for people to present tributes to their memories,
beloved ones, or historic events.
for LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design http://laforum.org Summer Exhibition
EVERY. THING. CHANGES https://everythingchanges2020.org
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07/29/2020
INTERVIEW for the LOS ANGELES FORUM for ARCHITECTURE and URBAN DESIGN
http://laforum.org/delirious/every-thing-changes-interview-with-viva-family/
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07/18/2020
Excited to be in the coming collaborative LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design http://laforum.org
Summer Exhibition EVERY. THING. CHANGES
https://everythingchanges2020.org
In response to Viva Padilla potent psyco geographical poem, In. Memorial, is a series of vases as
street objects for people to present tributes to their memories, beloved ones, or historic events.
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01/18/2020
Lorena Garcia will be lecturing 1st year Applied Design Studio: TOPOGRAPHIC FORM at
the Landscape Architecture Department at College of Environmental Design,
in Cal Poly Pomona University, California.
LA1121L is the second course within the lower division design sequence. This studio focuses
on the generation of topographic form using a variety of different modeling techniques and
materials. Using an iterative process, we observe and record patterns in the landscape, then
investigate how to translate these patterns into physical form. Investigations emphasize
the generation of 2D and 3D form through spatial operations that are controlled by a
combination of digital and analog tools. Abstract topographic constructs serve as an
introduction to landform, how it guides water flow and how it can be manipulated to create
strong visual, performative, and experiential effects.
“The land we inhabit is an accumulation of past events we can make visible by means of landscape
architecture… It assumes that we think of the discipline of landscape architecture as involving
not only the planting of certain forms of flora or the shaping of geography toward scenic ends
but also the acts of digging, naming, articulating, and otherwise clarifying what already exists.”
– Aaron Betsky
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01/09/2020
SMALL ‘COMMUNITY’ OF THREE HOUSES
WONDERLAND HOUSES BY M U T U O
Wonderland is on the media:
metalocus
plataforma arquitectura
archdaily
archinet
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12/21/2019
we wish you
HAPPY HOLYDAYS AND PROPEROUS 2020 FOR YOU ALL
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12/05/2019
OSU POP UP EXHIBITION
1st year FIGURE/GROUND studio
Dec 6th- Atrium Building 7
landscape architecture department
college of environmental design
cal poly pomona
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12/01/2019
From December 16th- 19th, Lorena García will be imparting “Geometrias Diferentes”
a workshop at Dmad in Madrid.
Bajo la observación de los paisajes naturales y creando un puente entre los procesos ecológicos
y el placer estético, este curso pretende buscar herramientas de observación y crítica, y con
ellas abordar desde diferentes perspectivas la función de proyectar en el paisaje.
Durante el curso se introducirán diferentes metodologías de diseño, realizando ejercicios
cortos y rápidos de expresión de ideas y se mostrará también diferentes métodos de representación.
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08/19/2019
Lorena Garcia will be lecturing 1st year Applied Design Studio: FIGURE/GROUND at the
Landscape Architecture Department at College of Environmental Design,
in Cal Poly Pomona University, California.
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03/28/2019
Honored and excited to be part of the Reina Sofia Museum Master Plan, directed by Elisa R Laval
from Flast Architecture and Landscape
Felices de formar parte del equipo para el nuevo Plan Director del patio del Museo Reina Sofia,
dirigido por Elisa R Laval de Flast Arquitectura y paisaje
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01/08/2019
Lorena Garcia will be lecturing 3rd year Applied Design Studio at the Landscape Architecture
Program at College of Environmental Design, in Cal Poly Pomona University, California.
The studio topic will investigate the role of public parks as core components of social
infrastructure for communities. Amongst the many individual uses, the master plan is to
re-envision the reservoir as a moredeeply considered community asset. This studio will look at
the position of the reservoir complex as one in a series of contextual assets that could provide
a widely expanded set of public resources building a more resilient social infrastructure. The
studio will also include the development of a piece of site furnishing that reflects the project
conditions.
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11/15/2018
Lorena Garcia will be teaching a workshop called Another Geometries at Madrid School of Design
from December 17th to 20th. The course name comes from a beautiful song by Aries
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Logo and banners for Criptologia YouTube channel
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03/21/2018
Lorena García will be lecturing this Spring term, at College of Environmental Design, in
Cal Poly Pomona University, Los Angeles, California.
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12/06/2017
Golden Mountain Bay Master Plan, (Yantai, China) in collabotation with Roberto Marin
(Envisualab)and Paz Gonzalez Marinas. Architecture by Angel Martinez García-Conde studio.
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06/15/2017
Collabartion with Envisualab for the competition of Alamansa Park, San Javier, Murcia, SP
- 3rd mention of the jury-
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03/07/2017
VDO II: Day one
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02/27/2017
Lorena Garcia will be part of the jury for the mid term review for the first grade of the
Master in Landscape Architecture at USC, Los Angeles.
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12/14/2016
Gardening is a sketch´s collection of residential gardens in Los Angeles.
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07/14/2016
GARDEN IN MADRID
Planting design in collaboration with Flast Architecture. Madrid, SP.
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07/03/2014
LA FUERZA DEL SONIDO
Collaboration in the music video of Spanish artist Aries. Direct by ERIC UGUET.
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03/20/2016
Logo design by the one and the only one Begoña García-Alén
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03/16/2016
Interiors Roku Restaurant
Planting design In collaboration with MEGT ArchiTerra, West Hollywood, LA
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12/23/2015
CHRISTMAS CARD by Begoña Garcia Allén
Begoña García-Alén is a marvelous artist from Galicia. You can know more about her
here and in the independent publisher project that she shares with Andres Magán
(a really magic man!), in NOCHE LÍQUIDA
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11/18/2015
HALS Challenge 2015
1st Prize
DOCUMENTING MODERN LANDSCAPES HALS CHALLENGE 2015
Sunset Headquarters by Thomas Church, Menlo Park, San Mateo County California
BY: Janet Gracyk, ASLA; Chris Patillo, FASLA; Jill Johnson.
Drawings contributors: Sarah Raube; Janet Gracyk; Lorena Garcia; Genny Bantle and Chris Patillo.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE TEAM!
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Balcony in Madrid.
First PuenteAlameda Headquarters
La Casa de Coki from Eric Uguet on Vimeo.
PUENTE ALAMEDA
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT RESEARCH
Los Angeles and Madrid
Tel SP +34 603 447 369
Tel US +1 323 610 2805
Mail: lorenagr77@gmail.com
lorenag1@cpp.edu
twitter: @cokiracha
instagram: @puentealameda
pinterest: puentealameda
blog: http://puentealameda.wordpress.com/
ABOUT
PUENTE ALAMEDA
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH
LORENA GARCIA, founder
Contributors: Elisa R Laval, Paz González, Andrés Pérez, Eric Uguet de Resayre, Antia Moure, Roberto Marín Lidón,
Begoña García-Alén, Anna Laura Jesche, Juan Guerrero, Maria Capdevila, Elena Regueiro, Alyson Mello.
Photography: Jacobo Campos, Nicolas Fuster, Eric Uguet, Lorena Garcia
LORENA GARCIA: Majored in Forest Engineering (University of Santiago de Compostela).
In 2002 she moved to Madrid and completed her studies, earning a Master in Landscape Architecture (Polytechnic University of Madrid).
Over the course of the next 8 years she collaborated with various architecture firms, including:
Acebo X Alonso, MTM Arquitectos, Langarita-Navarro, Manuel Ocaña and Flast Arquitectura.
From 2007 until 2011, she worked full-time at Citerea as a principal.
During this time is part of pop band charades. She also managed to complete a post graduate course on the
“Restoration of Historic Gardens, Parks, and Cultural Landscapes” (Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid).
In 2011 she founded DPLA (puente alameda landscape architecture research).
A firm with base in Los Angeles and Madrid, which explores creative and collaborative
designs that address the complexity of the nature processes
Currently, she is lecturing at College of Environmental Design, in Cal Poly Pomona University (LA, CA)
and DMAD, Universidad de Nebrija de Madrid
CV
Academia
2018-NOW: Lecture at College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona, CA
2018-NOW: Lecturer at DMAD Madrid, Universidad de Nebrija, SP
2008-2010: Coordination of post graduate course “Restoration of Historic Garden, Parks, and Cultural Landscapes”, Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid, SP
Exhibitions
2022: Welcome Back! Balloon Installation and Community Dialogue, L.A. Forum. Helms Bakery, Los Angeles, CA
2021: BOSQUE ISLA - A collaboration with Irene de Andrés, MUTACIONES MADRID 2021
2020: IN.MEMORIAL -Summer Exhibition for LOS ANGELES FORUM FOR ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
Publications
- Book_ I International Congress Spanish Association of Landscape Architects
- Welcome Black! Annual Newsletter for Los Angeles Forum in Architecture and Urban Design
- InMemorial. GroundUP Magazine- Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning UC Berkeley, CA.
- Interview about In.Memorial for LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Summer 2020.
- Wonderland Garden featured in Metalocus, Archidaily, Archinet, Plataforma Arquitectura
- Medialab Prado features in Archdaily, dezeen, arquitectura viva, plataforma arquitectura, metalocus, desingboom
- Cultural Landscapes of World Heritate Sites, VVAA, Published by the Ministry of Cultura, Madrid, SP
- Spanish Garden Parámetres: Nature, Landscape and Territory, VVAA, Published by the Ministry of Cultura, Madrid, SP
- The Safeguarding of Cultural Landscapes, VVAA, in preparation.
- Independiente self published zines about art, music and landscape
Lectures
2022: Under the Influence, LA Forum for Urban Design
2022: Conversazione sul passaggio, Laurea Magistrale di Architecture del Pasaiggo, Sapienza University di Roma
2022: 24 hours of propositions and convertations about the living in the Biennal of Landscape Architecture of Versailles
2022: Round Table Urban Spaces for Well-being and Sustainability, Foro de las Ciudades, Madrid
2021: “El Contrato del Dibujante” para Cine en el Jardin 2021, Jardín Botánico de Madrid
2021: I International Congress Spanish Association of Landscape Architects, Grandad, Sp
Competitions
2022: LA Sobremesa. Concentrico Festival, Logroño.
2017: Parque de San Javier, San Javier, Murcia [1er accesit]
2015: Sunset Headquarters by Thomas Church, Menlo Park, San Mateo County California [1st prize HALS CHALLENGE -ASLA]
2014: La Rosaleda, A Coruña, Spain, [special mention of the jury]
2014: Metis Festival Garden, Quebec, Canada
2014: Allariz Festival Garden. Ourense, Spain
2012: Three Parks, Torrelodones, Spain
2012: Lausanne´s Festival Garden, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010: Belloch Park, Lleida, Spain
2005: Roa de Duero Square, Burgos, Spain
2004: Chamount Sur Loire Festival, France
Residential Garden
2022: Garfield, Pasadena, CA
2021: Garibaldi, Soria, SP
2020: Hayvenhurst, Encino, CA
2019: Valleybrink, Los Angeles, CA
2019: Avalon st, Los Angeles, CA
2019: A&C, Pasadena, CA
2017: VDO II, Los Angeles, CA
2017: Del Norte Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2016: Congosto Gardens, Congosto, León, Spain
2016: Mission St, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Via de las Olas, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Kamaroti Hotel Gardens, SIfnos, Greece
2012: Balcony in Sagasta, Madrid, Spain
2011: Allegue Garden, Madrid, Spain
Urban Development - Commercial-
2022: La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
2018: Urbanizacion Allonbay, Villajoyosa, Spain
2017: Golden Mountain Bay, Plan, Yantai, China
2017: Urbanizacion Nature, Alicante, Spain
2017: Del Norte House Development, Los Angeles, CA
2017: Wonderland House Development, Los Angeles, CA
2016: Outdoor Costa Mesa Plaza, Cosa Mesa, CA
2014: Kamaroti Hotel Gardens, SIfnos, Greece
Collaboration with MEGT TERRA landscape architecture
2017: Hollywood Residential Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2017: Appian House, Los Angeles, CA
2017: Corona del Mar Residential Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2017: Franklin Rediential Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2016: Vyneyard, CA
2016: Costa Mesa Plaza, Costa Mesa, OC, CA
2016: Palos Verdes Residential Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2016: Harbor Residential Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2015: N Bentley, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Tarzana, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Coperto, Los Angeles, CA
2015; Roku Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
Collaboration with Flast Architecture
2019: Museo Reina Sofia Master Plan
2016: LLopis Garden, Madrid, Spain
2014: Valdefresnos Garden, Madrid, Spain-
2012: Marín Garden, Pontevedra, Spain
Collaboration with Citerea, dir by Ana Luengo (IFLA Vice-President for Europe)
2011: Roof Garden in Velazquez St, Madrid, Spain
2011: The Recalde Palace, Bergara, Spain
2010: The Royal Manzanares Castle, Madrid, Spain
2009: Gabriel Miró Square, Madrid, Spain
2008: Cigarral de las Mercedes, Toledo, Spain
2007: El Encin Golf Course, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
2004: Prado Museum Roof Garden, Madrid, Spain
Collaboration with Langarita+Navarro Architecture
2010: Garden of Intermediae-Prado, Madrid, Spain
2008: Almunia Park, Almunia de Doña Godina, Spain
2008: The Movie, Spanish Pavilion 11th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia 2008
Collaboration with AceboxAlonso Architecture
2011: Sprew Urban Space, La Coruña, Spain
2007: Biodiesel Factory Garden, Vigo, Spain
2007: Vars House, Madrid, Spain
2004: Cuña Verde Park, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Collaboration with MTM Archittecture
2010: Cebada Square, Madrid Spain
2009: UAM Square, Madrid, Spain
2008: Sport City III, Madrid, Spain
2007: Pormetxeta Square, Bilbao, Spain
2006: Los Fresnos Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain
Collaboration with Manuel Aymerich Arq-
2006: Estrella de Izar housing development, León, Spain
2005: Green areas for the PAU El Cañaveral, Madrid, Sp
2005: Monte Tabor School, Madrid, Spain
2004: Torrelodones Comercial Park, Madrid, Spain
2004: Restricted competition for the design of the gardens of Caja España Bank, León, Spain [first award]
Collaboration with Manuel Ocaña Architecture
2005: Levante Park 1, Córdoba, Spain
2005: Levante Park 2, Córdoba, Spain
Collaboration ATP Paisajismo
2005: The Wall Park, Sevilla, Spain [thrid award]-
2004: Concepción Park, Sevilla, Spain[thrid award]-
2004: Urban Gardening, Majadahonda, Spain.
BOARD MEMBER
- AEP- Asociación Española de Paisajistas- Grupo de Educación
LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design - VP Grants Committee.
MEMBERSHIP
AEP Asociacion Española de Paisajistas
EFLA European Fundation Landscape Architecture
Le Notre Institute
LALA Group (Landscape Architects in Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Conservancy
ECOLOGA CON CALIFICACION ADECUADA PARA