Martin Rein-Cano

Landscape Architect and Lecturer

Martin was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He studied Art History at Frankfurt University and Landscape Architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He trained in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco. In 1996 he founded TOPOTEK 1. TOPOTEK 1 participates in a wide variety of international projects and has achieved the first prize in various competitions. Several professional books and articles have been published exclusively on his work, which has been honored with many awards and prizes, including the 1st Prize in the German Landscape Architecture Award 2015 for the project UNESCO World Heritage Site, Abbey Lorsch. Martin Rein-Cano has been appointed as a guest professor in academic institutions in Europe and North America, including the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Presently he teaches at the Dessau Institute for Architecture. He frequently lectures at internationally renowned universities and cultural institutions and regularly serves on competition juries.