The Landezine team presents the invited jurors who will convene in person to select built projects for the 11th edition of LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award. The jury brings together four invited experts — Jacqueline Osty (Atelier Jacqueline Osty et Associés), Jens Linnet (BOGL), Michael Young (Cooper Union; Young & Ayata), and Silvia Benedito (Harvard GSD; Oficinaa; OficinaAcademy). They will be joined by Landezine’s editor-in-chief, Zaš Brezar, forming a five-member jury. 

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Jacqueline Osty

Jacqueline Osty is a Paris-based landscape architect and founder of Atelier Jacqueline Osty & Associés, established in 1985. A graduate of the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, she taught at the National School of Nature and Landscape in Blois from 2004 to 2019. Her work is widely recognised for integrating heritage, urban, and environmental concerns through a highly contextual approach that moves fluently between territorial scale and detailed design.

Osty has realised a wide range of major public projects across France, including urban parks, public spaces, and large-scale urban transformations. Key works include Saint-Pierre Park in Amiens, Bonne Park in Grenoble, Martin Luther King Park in Paris (Clichy-Batignolles), the Paris Zoological Park, and the Presqu’île Rollet Riverfront in Rouen. Her public space and promenade projects include the Bellecour and Jacobins Squares in Lyon, the promenades of Reims, the historic boulevards of Chartres, and the seafront of Les Sables d’Olonne. The studio is also engaged in major urban planning projects such as the Flaubert eco-district in Rouen, the Île de Nantes urban project, and the Grand Canal Park in Toulouse.

For this body of work, Jacqueline Osty has received numerous distinctions, including the Urban Planning Prize (Parks and Gardens) in 1994, the National Landscape Grand Prize in 2005 for Saint-Pierre Park in Amiens and again in 2018 for the Seine riverbank developments in Rouen, the National Eco-district Prize in 2009, and the Landscape Victory Prize in 2012. In recognition of her lasting contribution to urban design, she was awarded the Grand Prize for Urban Planning in 2020.

Jens Linnet

Jens Linnet is a landscape architect, co-founder, and Creative Director of BOGL, with offices in Copenhagen and Oslo. Educated at the University of Copenhagen, where he earned an MSc in Landscape Architecture in 2003, Linnet brings more than two decades of professional experience to the practice. Since founding BOGL in 2009 together with Adam Bang, he has played a central role in shaping the studio’s profile through a practice grounded in close site reading, material intelligence, and long-term ecological and social relevance.

Read interview with Jens on Landezine: No Fixed Method, Attuned Response

BOGL’s work spans a wide range of project types, including parks, public spaces, urban transformations, infrastructural landscapes, and adaptive reuse projects, across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Central Europe. BOGL’s projects have been continuously featured on Landezine, and the studio has received significant international recognition in the past couple of years. Among others, they received the Danish Landscape Architecture Prize, their project, The Passage and The Smithy, received the LILA 2024 Jury Award, and BOGL was awarded the LILA 2025 Office Award.

Through his work at BOGL, Jens Linnet has contributed to advancing landscape architecture as a civic and environmental practice that operates across temporal horizons—addressing climate adaptation, resource stewardship, and the shared grounds of urban life.

Michael Young

Michael Young is an Associate Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. Appointed Dean in December, he will formally assume the position in April 2026. He also serves as Coordinator of Graduate Studies. He has been a member of the Cooper Union faculty since 2005, teaching across the full undergraduate design sequence as well as in the graduate design studios. Awarded tenure in 2022, he has played a central role in shaping the school’s pedagogical culture, with electives and seminars that consistently reach capacity. In his current leadership role, he is responsible for advancing the strategic vision of the graduate program, with a focus on curriculum development, recruitment, and strengthening professional pathways through internships and career development.

Alongside his academic work, Young is a founding partner of the New York–based architectural practice Young & Ayata. The studio has received wide international recognition, including the Progressive Architecture Award, the Design Vanguard Award, the Young Architects Prize, and the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In international competitions, Young & Ayata won first prize for the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany, and for the New Agricultural Management Institute in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Their residential project DL1310 in Mexico City was a nominee for the Mies van der Rohe Crown Hall Americas Prize and received an AIANY Honor Award. The practice’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Istanbul Modern, the Graham Foundation, SCI-Arc, and Princeton University.

Michael Young is the author of The Estranged Object (Graham Foundation, 2015) and Reality Modelled After Images (Routledge, 2021), and has published numerous essays on architecture and representation. He was the 2019–20 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Young holds a Master of Architecture II from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and is a registered architect in the State of New York.

Silvia Benedito

Silvia Benedito is a registered landscape architect, architect and urban designer whose work foregrounds spatial experience, bioclimatic strategies and nature-based solutions. She earned her PhD from the University of Coimbra, focusing on thermodynamically driven strategies for thermal protection across different climatic regions and scales. Benedito has taught for nearly 15 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she advances curricula and design strategies for climate and landscape resilience, nutrient circularity and community-based practices. She has served as a visiting professor at the TU München, TU Graz, University of Algarve, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Benedito is the co-founder of OFICINAA, based in Lisbon and Ingolstadt, known for integrating climate design, beauty, and biodiversity protection in collaboration with local communities. The work has been recognised and exhibited in various venues, including the New European Bauhaus (NEB), Princeton University, the Europan Competition, the American Architecture Prize, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Key projects include Stadt Park-Donau in Ingolstadt, an ongoing large-scale urban park published in Landscape Tunings: An Urban Park at the Danube (ACTAR, 2016).

Benedito has lectured worldwide, and she is the author of the book Atmosphere Anatomies: On Design, Weather, and Sensation (Lars Müller 2022), with photos by Iwan Baan. The book received the inaugural Book Prize for Architectural Innovation and Sustainability from the Minister for the Environment and Climate Action, Portugal (MAAC). She also co-edited Thermodynamic Interactions: An Exploration into Physiological, Material, and Territorial Atmospheres (Actar 2016 awarded the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism, Spain). Benedito was the recipient of the Fernando Távora Prize from the Portuguese Ordem dos Arquitetos and was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony for the Arts (2015–2016).

More recently, she launched OficinaAcademy, a design-based nonprofit advancing rural entrepreneurship through co-creation initiatives rooted in environmental education, local stewardship practices, and habitat conservation.