Ninth Edition 2023-2024
Bas Smets (1975) has a background in landscape architecture, civil engineering and architecture. He founded his firm in Brussels in 2007 and has since completed more than 50 projects internationally with his team of 30 architects and landscape architects. His built projects include the Parc des Ateliers in Arles, the park of Thurn & Taxis in Brussels, the Mandrake Hotel in London, and the Himara Waterfront in Albania. In 2022 he won the international competition for the public space around the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Each project is part of an interrelated research into the possible role and ambition of landscape projects. The aim is to invent “Augmented Landscapes” by using the logics of nature. These augmented landscapes produce new microclimates while providing new atmospheres. Collaboration with artists and scientists is central to this approach. He has received many awards for his unique approach, among which the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Smets was appointed Professor in Practice at the GSD-Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2023. With his design studio he explores new ways to transform the city into an urban ecology, producing cooling microclimates to counter climate change.
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Argentina
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Ecuador
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England
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Switzerland
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Austria
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Germany
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Switzerland
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Spain
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France
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Brazil
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Brazil
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Germany / Austria
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The Netherlands / Bahrain
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Ecuador
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China
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Portugal
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England
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Portugal
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USA
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Japan
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Switzerland
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Spain
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Sri Lanka
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Bas Smets
Belgium
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United States
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Spain
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Spain
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Brazil
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Japan
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Mexico