estudioOCA is an international studio focusing on urbanism and landscape issues on a global scale. The studio’s primary offices are located in San Francisco, Barcelona, and Bangkok, with network offices in Santiago de Chile and México D.F.
estudioOCA takes a rational, pragmatic approach to urbanization and the landscape, responding to ecological, social, and political forces, and developing frameworks for transformation to meet current and future demands. The studio provides a conceptual rethinking of the public domain, revealing new opportunities for cities and open space. We work in parallel with, and in response to, infrastructure deployment, adapting mobility networks to greater bicycle and pedestrian uses, creating vital interconnections throughout urban environments. We work with cities to extract public space from outmoded uses. We work with architects, engineers, developers and other professionals to build socially interactive places.
estudioOCA’s networked structure allows the studio to perform work locally on a global scale, adapting to local customs, cultures, and laws, enabling the studio to provide landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental planning throughout Spain, the United States, Thailand, Canada, Chile, Morocco, France, Brazil, and Mexico.
estudioOCA featured in Futurescapes book
estudioOCA has been featured in a new book on international contemporary landscape architecture. Futurescapes by Tim Richardson came out on sale on August 31, 2011, in the UK, USA and France, published by Thames & Hudson, London.
estudioOCA to present paper
Gonzalo de la Fuente will present a paper titled “Wind Farms Interpretation in the Landscape” at the upcoming First Congress for the Research of Industrial Landscapes held in Seville on November 4. For more information, visit laboratoriopaisajeindustrialandaluz.blogspot.com
estudioOCA wins competition in Chile
estudioOCA and team have been selected by the Agency for Environmental Evaluation of the Government of Chile to update the methodology used to evaluate projects from the perspective of landscape and environmental planning.
estudioOCA Bangkok
estudioOCA has opened a new office in Bangkok, Thailand to direct and manage projects throughout Asia. Ignacio Ortinez, principal of estudioOCA Barcelona, will direct the new Thailand studio.
estudioOCA Mexico
estudioOCA has a new office in Mexico City. Our collaborator, the architect Alonso Malo-Juvera, will be its director, you can view his profile on the collaborators section. estudioOCA now provides landscape architecture, urban design and planning services through out Mexico. estudioOCA Mexico will be focused on the public, tourism and building sectors.