Luis Vallejo Estudio de Paisajismo was created in 1986 by Luis Vallejo García-Mauriño who then already had great experience, gained through family tradition.
From the beginning, his activities were based equally in national and international projects – in private projects such as interventions in large estates in Madrid, Toledo, Albacete and Cordoba, private gardens in Madrid, Mallorca, Morocco and Tel Aviv as well as projects of greater scale such as the Oman Botanic Garden in Omán, the University Hospital Rio Hortega in Valladolid or the Ciudad Financiera of the Banco Santander Central Hispano in Madrid. All of these gardens include interventions not only in landscaping, but also in urbanism and architecture. They all share the same characteristic: natural, plant and mineral elements form the axis that is the base for the structure, development and implementation of the project, this being a private garden, a public place or a hospital.
The sculpture is part of many projects of the studio as it is an element of the landscape. Luis Vallejo personalizes the pieces and compositions and integrates them in the nature of the project.
In addition, Luis Vallejo is director and curator of the Bonsai Museum in Alcobendas.
The Museum offers courses and workshops by known masters of this discipline. Furthermore it is the place where the Luis Vallejo MBA competition is held every two years, which already had six internationally recognized editions.
The studio includes an own gardening company for the implementation, ARCEVAL JARDINERIA S.L. Luis Vallejo has been awarded several prizes and recognitions. The most important of them is the “Order of the Rising Sun” offered by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, which is a symbol of the Japanese Government’s recognition of foreign civilians who make a contribution to the diffusion and promotion of the Japanese culture in other countries.
The studio led by the landscaper Luis Vallejo is formed by a team of multidisciplinary collaborators who work on all the phases that a landscaping and architecture project consists of: architects, agronomical engineers, botanists, technical forest engineers, technical agriculture engineers, construction engineers, superior constructors, civil engineers and ecologists. The ambition of this team is always to create a garden, a special and unique landscape, an architectural space that is perfectly integrated in its surroundings.
The Team
Luis Vallejo García-Mauriño, Landscape Designer -Managing Director
Ena Garcia Pastor, Architect
José Molina Terrén, Architect
Guaria Cañón Mendaro, Architect
Ana Garcia Masó, Architect
Elisa Rodríguez Laval, Landscape Architect
Frédéric Fraeys, Architect
Noelia Somolinos Merino, Architect
Alfonso Castelo Jurado, Agricultural Engineer
Javier Menéndez Sáez , Agricultural Engineer
Noelia Guerra Aparicio, Architectural Technicion
Félix Huelves de Medio, Architectural Technicion
Rebecca Schreyer, Administration
Distintions & Prizes
Distintion:
2008 ORDER OF THE RISING SUN “Rays of Gold and Silver”
Awarded to Luis Vallejo by H.H. The Emperor of Japan. Government of Japan. This condecoration is the highest distinction with which the Government of Japan acknowledges the effort of a foreign citizen in promoting the Japanese culture in other countries
Prizes
2019 Architecture MasterPrize (Los Angeles, USA)
in the category of rehabilitation and restoration. Ruiz Barbain Architects
2009 Torsanlorenzo International Prize
HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RIO HORTEGA VALLADOLID – SPAIN
Section B: Urban Green Spaces (The quality of projects in cities, squares, neighbourhood green spaces, urban and private parks).
1st Prize
2007 Torsanlorenzo International Prize
FINANCIAL CITY OF THE SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO BANK
Landscape Design and Protection
Special Prize “Giancarla Massi
2007 Mipim Award
PORTICO BUILDING – Campo de las Naciones, Madrid
Best Office Building of the Year
2006 Design of Rotundas – National Prizes Botanical Garden of Gijón.
Rotundas of the FINANCIAL CAMPUS OF THE SANTANDER BANK
1st Prize
2006 Alhambra Prize from the Spanish Association of Public Parks and Gardens
BOTANICAL GARDEN – BONSAI MUSEUM OF PARLA – MADRID
2004 Torsanlorenzo International Prize
FUENLABRADA HOSPITAL
1st Prize
Category “The Urban Green Culture”
Architect: Andrés PEREA/ Luis GONZÁLEZ STERLING