Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa is a landscape architect with 40+ years of experience in the planning and design of urban landscapes.
Currently he is the vice-president for Resilience and Landscape Urbanism at the Collaborative, a Boston-based and minority-owned practice specializing in community planning and design. He is co-author of Green Infrastructure: a Landscape Approach, a Planning Advisory Report published by the American Planning Association, author of Reconsidering Ian McHarg: the Future of Urban Ecology (Planners Press), and Of Limbs, Leaves and Hope, a Portrait of Philadelphia’s Urban Forest in Times of a Pandemic (ORO Editions).
He serves on the Advisory Board of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the Design Advisory Board of Nature Sacred, and the Leadership Council of the School of Design at the North Carolina State University. He regularly writes and lectures on the future of the profession of landscape architecture.