Gloria Aponte
Medellín
Gloria Aponte is a Colombian landscape architect who has been practicing for more than 30 years in design, planning and teaching. She lead her own firm, Ecotono Ltda., in Bogotá for 20 years. She led the Masters program in Landscape Design at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Medellín. She is a consultant and belongs to “Rastro Urbano” research group at Universidad de Ibagué, and also the Education Clúster at LALI (Latinamerican Landscape Initiative).
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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We Need an Ethical Code for Water
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Towards Innovative Design of Stormwater Management, with Landscape at the Center
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As a landscape architect, how do you interpret the word “biodiversity”? How does this meaning find expression in your design?
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Let’s Apply an Ethno-ecological Approach to Cities and their Nature
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Urban Landscape: Reading Nature from Big to Small Scales
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You say po-TAY-to. What ecologists and landscape architects don’t get about each other, but ought to.
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The Aburrá Valley Must Finally Understand: Water is Also Nature!
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Values that Underlie the Landscape of Cities—Those that DO and those that SHOULD