the Collaborative is pleased to welcome a hard-working nice guy, and one of America’s leading landscape architects and urban designers to head the firm’s Landscape Urbanism and Resilience practice.
We live in urgent times that require forward thinking action. People far and wide need help averting growing environmental and public health risks. I look forward to working with the Collaborative on projects that build welcoming, environmentally healthy communities that enrich our lives—for the sake of the planet and all living things.
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
For over forty years, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, FASLA, has focused practice and advocacy on the planning and design of communities and places under the philosophy that the well-being of people and the planet are fundamentally intertwined. Recently he served as Landscape Architecture Practice Leader for the Americas at AECOM, and prior to that was a principal with Wallace, Roberts and Todd, LLC.
Ignacio is widely recognized for design excellence and innovation. He has taught and lectured at leading universities, and regularly speaks and writes on urban resilience and climate adaptation. Representative awards include the Ruddy Brunner Award and ULI Global Award of Excellence for the SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus in Bethlehem, PA; the ASLA, PA/DE Chapter Honor and People’s Choice Award for the Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., the ASLA, PA/DE Chapter Presidential Award of Excellence for the Nashville Courthouse Square; and the APA Outstanding Planning Award for the South Livermore Valley Specific Plan in California.
Ignacio’s publications include CC+COVID-19: Recalibrating Cities for a Secure Future, Medium, 2020; McHarg: The Long View, Shortened, in Design with Nature Now, Lincoln Institute Press, 2019; Reconsidering Ian McHarg: The Future of Urban Ecology, Planners Press, 2014; and Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach, an APA Planning Advisory Service Report co-authored with David Rouse, 2013.
Ignacio is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architect’s Climate Action Committee, Advisory Board Member of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, member of the Public Art Committee of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, and Board Member Emeritus of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. He also served on the Board of the National Complete Streets Coalition, and on the Just Space Task Force of the University City District in Philadelphia.
A Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellow, Ignacio holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania, and Bachelor of Architecture from University of Miami.
ALFIE is an out-of-this-world Sci-fi tale that explores the future of humanity
What if after years of extensive exploration of the Milky Way, we find out that the Earth is the only planet able to support life?
Get immersed into bi-polar worlds: one for people, supported by hyper-advanced technology, and another strictly for wildlife; In ALFIE these worlds collide in the only way they can: over the elemental need to sustain life, drawing out vice and virtue in equal measures.
