Lorena Garcia is a curator, educator and founder of PUENTEALAMEDA, an international landscape architecture firm with base in Los Angeles and Madrid.
Majored in Forest Engineering (USC, Spain). In 2004 she moved to Madrid and completed her studies, earning a Master of Landscape Architecture (UPM, Spain). She also managed to complete and coordinate a postgraduate course on the “Restoration of Historic Gardens, Parks, and Cultural Landscapes” (ETSAM, Madrid). Over the course of the next 6 years she collaborated with various world-awarded architecture firms, including: Acebo X Alonso (Premio Nacional Jovenes Arquitectos), MTM Arquitectos, Langarita-Navarro (Mies van der Rohe Award), Manuel Ocana and Flast Arquitectura.
In 2011 she founded PuenteAlameda Landscape Architecture Research. A firm that explores creative and collaborative designs, addressing the complexity of the nature processes, with projects as Reina Sofia Museum Master Plan (Madrid, Spain), Hotel Kamaroti (Sifnos, Greece), MediaLab-Prado Gardens (Madrid) and Allonbay Green Urban Development (Alicante, Spain).
She has been a lecturer at the Landscape Architecture Department, College of Environmental Design (CPP, CA); and at Madrid School of Design (Spain); assistant of professor Ana Luengo PhD in European University of Madrid, and coordinator of post graduate courses in Polytechnic University of Madrid.
