"Island, desert, mountain, forest" Luis Callejas

The forest, the island, the mountain and the desert are engaged as non site specific spatial metaphors informing architecture. The abstracted idea of landscape as model in these drawings and projects challenges the myth of site specificity in landscape and architecture. 

Luis Callejas is founder of LCLA office, an Oslo based architecture and landscape architecture practice operated together with Swedish architect Charlotte Hansson.  

Callejas is full professor at the Oslo School of Architecture in Norway. Previously he taught architecture and landscape architecture at Harvard GSD from 2011 to 2016. Other visiting positions include Yale, University of Toronto and University of Edinburgh.

Completed buildings and landscapes include the aquatic center for the IX South American games in Medellin, and the renovation of the main stadium in Bogota. Ongoing projects include the landscape for the renovation of the former US embassy in Oslo designed by Eero Saarinen.