Roberto Capecci
Roberto Capecci
Clinical Assistant Professor
AA 207A
Landscape Architecture Program
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2481
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2481
Roberto Capecci is a landscape designer and teacher in landscape architecture. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Land-I archicolture, co-founded with Raffaella Sini and Marco Antonini.In Singapore, he was a design director at the landscape architecture firm Salad Dressing. From 2012 to 2016, Roberto was a landscape architecture lecturer at Singapore’s Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
He has been faculty adjunct member at the Landscape Architecture program of the University of Idaho (since 2017), and Washington State University (since 2021), and he is currently Clinical Assistant Professor at the U of I Landscape Architecture program.
Roberto’s pedagogy and scholarship reflect his professional practice as a designer. His focus is on Conceptual Landscape Design, exploring the narrow space between Art, Architecture and Landscape. Led by the need to discover, understand and reinterpret the identity of places, his research and practice uses an artistic approach as medium to translate concepts into spaces that talk about the uniqueness of a specific context. In design studios, he explores with students experimental approaches in design with landscape installations and temporary urbanism, community collaborations and service-learning projects.
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Master of Architecture, Universita’ degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 1994
(6-years seamless Bachelor and MArch in Rome University La Sapienza in architecture and architectural restoration, landscape architecture, landscape and urban planning) - Registered Architect and Landscape Architect – Italy, Rome Board of Architects, license number 12555, 1996–present
Courses
- LARC 150 Landscape, Culture & Environment
- LARC 251 Intro to Principles of Site Design
- LARC 252 Landscape Architecture Design Foundation Studio
- LARC 253 Design Process Studio
- LARC 353/355 Studio 1 and 2
- LARC 363/365 Studio 3 and 4
- LARC 453/455 Studio 5 and 6
- LARC 463/465 Studio 7 and 8
- LARC 512 Landscape Analysis and Site Planning
- LARC 554 Graduate Studio I
- LARC 556 Graduate Studio 2
Italy Landscape Architecture Summer Program
- LARC 364/564 Summer Study Abroad Design studio
- LARC 390/491 Italian Hill Towns and Urban Centers
- LARC 382 The Italian Experience - Landscape, Language and Culture
In 2000, Roberto Capecci founded ‘Land-I archicolture’ in partnership with Marco Antonini and Raffaella Sini. Through their passionate collaboration, they have implemented a number of projects dealing with landscape architectural design mainly focusing on environmental and urban design as well as contemporary garden design, exhibiting at international competitions and working for public and private clients. Their works have been widely exhibited and published in a number of periodicals and books. In Singapore, he was a lecturer for four years at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and he has an ongoing, inspiring and exciting collaboration with ‘Salad Dressing-Landscape Design’ directed by Chang Huai Yan.
- Conceptual Landscape Design
- Temporary landscapes
- Sites and identity
- Site-specific design
- Waugh, Emily. 2016. Experimenting Landscapes: Testing the Limits of the Garden. Birkhäuser
- Barbaux, Sophie. 2015. Jardins Singuliers, Unique Gardens. Paris: ICI Consultants.
- Amoroso, Nadia. 2012. Digital Landscape Architecture Now. New York: Thames & Hudson.
- Broto, Carles. 2012. The Complete Book of Playground Design. Barcelona: Links International.
- Galindo, Michelle. 2012. Playground Design. Berlin: Verlagshaus BRAUN.