Barcelona's Parlour Gardens Exhibition Showcases Associate Professor Gareth Doherty and Critical Landscapes Design Lab

Associate Professor Gareth Doherty and the Critical Landscapes Design Lab are featured in Parlour Gardens, an international exhibition on view at the Botanic Garden of Barcelona from June to October 2026.

The exhibition revisits the jardinets de saló, first conceived in 1926 by Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí, Llorenç Artigas, and Raoul Dufy. These miniature ceramic landscapes are reinterpreted a century later by 13 leading landscape architects from around the world, offering contemporary perspectives on landscape design through crafted, small-scale environments.

Doherty and the Lab’s contribution, Medinascapes, reimagines the rooftops of the Medina of Tunis as an interconnected landscape. The project was developed with contributions from lab members Rawan Alsaffar and Supriya Ambwani, with the model of Dar Ben Gacem and its surrounding context crafted by B3DC (Barcelona 3D Ceramics).

The exhibition also features works by James Corner, Thomas Doxiadis, Adam Greenspan, Phil Harris, Walter Hood, Tarna Klitzner, Kamel Louafi, Jala Makhzoumi and Abdul-Halim Jabr, Adrian McGregor, Teresa Möller, Catherine Mosbach, and Peter Sutchbury.

The Parlour Gardens (Jardins de saló) exhibition runs from 5 June to 4 October 4, 2026, at the Barcelona Botanical Garden (Jardí Botànic de Barcelona). Open daily from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, the display features 15 3D-printed ceramic living-room gardens created by leading international landscape architects to celebrate a 1926 avant-garde design concept.