Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles

The Landscape Architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles was distinguished with Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award on the 10th April by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) on the first day of the World Congress, Auckland (New Zealand), where the President of the Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects (APAP) - Landscape Architect Miguel Reis Braula - represented Professor Ribeiro Telles, by making a lecture written by the winner.

This award represents the highest honor that the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the profession of landscape architecture in the world, can grant and recognize to a landscape architect, whose work and contributions throughout life have had an unparalleled and lasting impact in the welfare of society and environment, promoting the profession of Landscape Architecture.

The IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award was initiated in 2004, being the first awarded Peter Walker (USA) in 2005, followed by Bernard Lassus (France) in 2009, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (Canada) in 2011 and Mocsenyi Mihaly (Hungary) in 2012.

The Prize celebrates the extraordinary contribution to IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) of Britain, founder of the International Federation and with a remarkable career.

The awarded is selected through a nomination and selection process by a panel that includes landscape architects from four regions of IFLA, and representing the academic, public and private practice, with a profound knowledge of the profession, its principal professionals and international practice.

Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles is awarded for its exceptional career of seventy years. A few months after seeing ensured the continuity of the Green Corridor of Lisbon, an idea launched in 1968, he visited the Gardens of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (project that is co-author and space that hosted the IFLA Congress in 1970 ) to "(...) I thank the prize that has been awarded, which is also for all who worked with me and so I am very grateful (...) is a recognition of the Mediterranean landscape in Portugal and of course of the Landscape Architecture action in this country "(Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, April 1st, 2013).

Source: APAP