School of Environmental Design and Rural Development

Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture:

"Synthesis and Process"

by

Roberto Rovira

Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Pizza lunch @ 11:45 am
Lecture @ 12:00 noon
Location:  Landscape Architecture, Room 125

Roberto Rovira is Chair of the Landscape Architecture department at Florida International University and Principal of the interdisciplinary Studio Roberto Rovira.  A registered landscape architect, his teaching, research and creative work explore the field of landscape architecture through art and design and often test the concepts of time and transformation and the potential of landscape architecture to play a pivotal role in envisioning and shaping public space.  Roberto has been lead designer in national and international projects in Miami, South America, New York, Dubai and California, and his work ranges from environmental installations and competitions, to art commissions, exhibits, and landscape architecture projects.  

The lecture will focus on work that Roberto Rovira has completed through his studio using landscape architecture as an agency of synthesis whereby design, engineering, technology, and art, work at various scales, ranging from installations to urban projects.  Central to the work is a preoccupation with ecological processes and the means by which the inherent incompleteness of landscape architecture is uniquely suited to envisioning and shaping public space at the intersection of the built and natural environments.