Ignacio Ortínez has more than twenty years of professional experience in landscape architecture and landscape contracting. He worked for nine years with landscape and general engineering contractors in Northern California and for 11 years as a landscape architect with landscape architecture and planning studios in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2007, he established the estudioOCA office in Barcelona. He is now leading the new estudioOCA office in Bangkok.
Ignacio’s professional design work has allowed him to participate in projects and competitions worldwide, including California and elsewhere in the United States and Europe. These projects include: public works, hotels/resorts, parks, riverfronts, housing, hospitals, terraces and private residences.
His combined background in landscape architecture, entomology and horticulture has had a strong professional influence in his work. The applied ecology is a fundamental part in the conception of his projects: the way they are defined and shaped, the materials used, and the selection of plants that are best suited to the place and their relations to architecture and landscape architecture.
Bryan Cantwell is a landscape architect with more than thirteen years of experience in designing urban and rural landscapes. He studied architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture at Oklahoma State University, receiving his degree in landscape architecture in 1997. After graduation, he worked for the Sage Group in San Antonio, Texas, where he worked on downtown redevelopment projects, including the River Walk, and was the designer for a large city sports facility. At The Jacob Braun Company, he led numerous projects, among which are the Civic Center Music Hall, the Arts and Humanities Council, and the Lincoln Renaissance streetscape for the State Capitol of Oklahoma. In his position at Omg Studio in Berkeley, California, he was a consultant to the renovation project of the building for the department of landscape architecture at the University of California, Davis. His portfolio also includes parks, hospitals, and roof gardens in cities throughout the country, including work on the Bay Trail along the San Francisco Bay. He also collaborated with the artist Mildred Howard for the Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bryan leads the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of estudioOCA, with a focus on environmentally sensitive public places.