Martin Rein-Cano, Fall 2026 Lecture Series: Zeitgeist

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture by Martin Rein-Cano, Zeitgeist. This lecture is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture's fall 2026 lecture series, How Can Landscape Architecture Have Actual Agency?

Celebrating the constant, vital creative force ("procreant urge") inherent in life, the world, and ourselves. The lecture reflects on the richness and completeness of the present moment as well as on the continuous power of current urgencies Martin will present a selection of projects in relation to specific dual themes connected to these ideas.

Martin Rein-Cano 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 partakes 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 its work, which has been honoured with many awards and prizes, such as the German Landscape architecture Prize 2015 for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Cloister Lorsch in Germany, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 for Superkilen in Copenhagen and the Cologne Architecture Prize 2021 for the School Complex Altstadt Nord.

Martin Rein-Cano has been appointed as a guest professor in different academic institutions in Europe and North America, such as the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University and latest the Dessau Institute for Architecture. He frequently lectures at internationally renowned universities and cultural institutions and regularly serves on competition juries.