About

The mission

We are the stewards of the land that provides for us: with every design gesture, we want to leave a gentle footprint, that generates life and beauty on this planet we call Home.

Our mission is to build resilient landscapes that address the issues of climate change and become attractive places for people making a beautiful impact on our world.

We want every single drop of water that falls from the sky and touches this life blessed planet, to have the possibility to meet the roots of a plant.

We wish for every molecule of water that reaches those roots, to receive enough energy from the sun to get combined, into a molecule of oxygen, and a molecule of carbon.

The approach

We live in a beautiful world.

Every place, even the most anonymous, has something special about it: a view, a building, a tree, a history.

Every project begins with listening to the place, and reading the landscape, whether it is urban, rural, industrial, or infrastructural.

Reading the landscape means to recognize deep identities, reactivate forgotten memories, and give back a meaning to places.

Lorenzo Bertolotto

Lorenzo Bertolotto is a urban planner and landscape designer who focuses on climate adaptation, biodiversity and sustainable mobility.

After graduating in Architecture form The Cooper Union with full tuition scholarship, Lorenzo worked in ranching and land management in the USA for one year, and furniture making for two years between New York and Turin (Italy), before starting to work as a urban planner and landscape designer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Lorenzo currently practices landscape architecture in Bozen, in the heart of the Alps.

In the News

News and Press about work I have done, both independently and with De Urbanisten

Just for laughs

After a first attempt in 2018, in 2019 I successfully applied to participate in Fjallraven Polar: a 300km dog sledding expedition in the Arctic wilderness.

Here are the presentation videos of that time time: