Miriam García García
Ph.D. Architect, urban planner and landscape architect
Founding partner
Doctor of Architecture, landscape architect, urban planner and director of the Department of Planning, Landscape and Climate Change of LANDLAB, laboratorio de paisajes. She promotes projects aimed at the promotion and development of spatial planning, landscape, urban design and its adaptation to climate change. Many of these works have received national and international recognition such as the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Award or Good Practice 2012 of the Un-Habitat Committee. In addition to this professional experience, he also worked for the public administration in the Government of Cantabria, at the head of the General Directorate of Urban and Regional Planning, at the beginning of his professional career (2003-2007).
She combines professional practice with research and teaching on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been a researcher, visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard (US), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and Universidad de los Andes (CO); Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (DO), the University of Rome La Spienza and Politecnico di Milano (IT); and the University of Cyprus (UCY), the Master of Landscape Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CAT), as well as in several Spanish universities. She has directed the Landscape Architecture Degree at Camilo José Cela University in Madrid. She currently teaches in the Master in Landscape Design at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (CO), in the Master in Urbanism and Territorial Studies of the National Institute of Public Administration of Madrid (ES), in the Escola Sert (COAC) and in the Department of Urbanism, Territory and Landscape of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CAT). She is also Senior Researcher at the Climate, Energy and Marine Infrastructures Area of the Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the University of Cantabria.
His research and professional practice are linked to landscape and ecology as drivers of change in plans and projects at multiple scales. In this sense, many of the studies and projects focus on the resilience of coastal, urban or metropolitan environments to the effects of climate change. His doctoral thesis: Towards Synthetic Metamorphosis of the Coast. Designing resilient landscapes (2017) has been awarded the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Theses of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (academic year 16/17), Honorable Mention of the 2nd European Prize Manuel de Solà-Morales (2019), selected to be part of the Spanish pavilion of the 16th Architecture Biennale held in Venice in 2018 and prize of the XII Edition of the Biennial Architecture Thesis Competition of the Arquia Foundation (2019). She is also the author of numerous articles in books and national and international scientific journals and collaborator in numerous research projects and socio-ecological activism, such as European Ideas Lab.
She is also a Member of the Scientific Committee of Europan Europe and advises various organizations on planning processes and resilient adaptation of cities, territories and landscapes to the effects of climate change.
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