Co-Director

Jose Alfredo Ramirez is an architect co-founder and Director of Groundlab. He studied Architecture in Mexico City, and the MA Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association. Before founding Groundlab he was practising in several architectural offices and institutions in Mexico City, Madrid and London where he concentrated in architectural and urban design projects like the Olympic master plan for London 2012. At Groundlab he has won and developed several competitions, workshops, exhibitions and projects, including winning entry for Longgang City international competition master plan, the international horticultural exposition in Xian, China among other projects worldwide. Jose Alfredo  has given workshops  and lectured on the topic of Landscape Urbanism and the work of Groundlab in Italy, Mexico, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, Spain, China, UK, Venezuela among others.

Co-Director

Eduardo Rico is a Civil engineer and MA Landscape Urbanism Graduate currently working in Arup as well as member of design practice Relational Urbanism.  He is currently engaged in strategic advice on infrastructure and transportation for urban master planning in the ILG team in Arup. Eduardo focuses his work and research in alternative design practices which feed infrastructural inputs into architectural urbanism. He has taught in Berlage Institute 2010 and 2012 as well as GSD Harvard 2013. Eduardo Rico has extensively lectured on his work on Infrastructures and Landscape as well contributed to various articles and books on the subject matter.

Studio Master

Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (PhD) is an educator and practising architect. She co-directs Groundlab with a focus on the design of public spaces and masterplans from a landscape and urban perspective in various international contexts as well as climate change policy projects and research on green infrastructure under the British Council institutional links programme. Currently, she teaches at the AA Landscape Urbanism masters programme. She has been recently awarded with a Graham Foundation grant to publish Landscape as Territory.

Lecturer

Elena Luciano Suastegui is a Mexican geoscientist from UNAM and landscape urbanist. She is currently working in academic environmental research and its translation through territorial design for the AA Ground Lab Residency at the Architectural Association. She is interested in issues related to soil, agency, and the verticality of territories.

Lecturer- Technical Tutor

Daniel Kiss is interested in architectural, landscape and geospatial visual communication of human-influenced environmental domains and their social/political relations depicted on various methods of visuals, diagrams and cartographies. He graduated with Master of Architecture from AA Landscape Urbanism where he developed a project that envisions dynamic forms of designing and managing the Antarctic marine and its resource extraction with an attempt to unfold the commercial krill fishing activities through the models of protection and regulatory systems of global common resources. Previously he worked as an architect in Budapest, Hungary, currently, he is a technical tutor at the AA Landscape Urbanism programme.

Technical Tutor

PhD Candidate (2017–present), Architecture and Digital Theory, Bart lett School of Architecture,
UCL supervised by Prof Mario Carpo and Prof Frédéric Migayrou interested in Research Topic:
The Creative Instrument of the Collecti ve Mind: Towards an Epistemology for Deep
Generative Architectural Design in the Era of Big Data.