Spain
in Spain. There have been a number of interesting
initiatives, carried out mostly by the University,
that have sunk in the ocean of political lack of will.
Looking at the European scale, one might say that
our ‘new’ landscape design tradition still has space
for experimentation and a lot to learn from our
neighbours.Professionally a Masters Programme in Landscape
Architecture started at Barcelona’s Architecture
School in 1983–84 which trained some of the most
talented professionals now practising in this field.
The long-awaited Landscape Architecture Degree
finally started in the same school in 1998–99,
without being recognised by the government, and
the first students have just now graduated. Madrid
University, similarly, has a new degree programme
which started in 2003.7.1
Panoramic view of the JBB shortly after the 1999
inauguration