The Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize seeks to honor the “best and most innovative practices in landscape architecture.” The 2025 prize will be awarded to a landscape that was built between 2019 to 2024. The winner will take home €15,000 (US $15,879) and a signed lithograph by Spanish artist Perico Pastor.
All projects submitted for the prize will be published in the biennial’s book catalogue and featured in an exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, and a website. And 7-11 finalists will be invited by the prize jury to go to Barcelona and lecture at the biennial symposium, which will be held November 17-21, 2025.
This year’s prize jury includes:
- Kate Orff, FASLA, PLA, founder, SCAPE
- Bruno Marques, president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
- Michel Desvigne, principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects
- Henry Crothers, founding director, Landlab
- Laura Zampieri, co-founder, CZstudio
The organizers state that since the first biennial in 1999, the prize has been a “barometer” of “trends, social concerns,” and achievement in the field of landscape architecture.
Submit projects by May 30, 2025. The submission fee is €90 (US$95). Each landscape architecture firm can submit a maximum of five projects.
The 2023 prize went to Tangshan Quarry Park in Tangshan, China, designed by Z+T Studio.
The park transformed an abandoned limestone quarry into a “dynamic public space where citizens can experience the recovery process of flora and fauna.”
And the 2021 prize winner went to Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.
