Gianluca Torini: 2007 – 2011 studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. 2010 internship at bbzl and A24 Landschaft. Bachelor of Science degree in 2011, then employment at Weidinger landscape architects. From 2012 freelance work at Weidinger Landschaftsarchitekten, GM013, Lavaland and Treibhaus Landschaftsarchitektur, Hamburg and Berlin. Since 2013 studying for a master’s degree in landscape architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. 2016 Foundation of the SOWATORINI Landschaft office.

Sebastian Sowa: After training as a landscape gardener (German young gardener master 2005) and working as a traveling journeyman at the Bruns tree nursery, studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Munich. Bachelor of science degree in 2012. Afterwards employment at Studio Vulkan in Zurich and at Plantago Gartenkultur in Basel and freelance work at Treibhaus Landschaftsarchitektur in Hamburg. From 2015 – 2018 art studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with a focus on land-art with Prof. Schreckenberger and Thilo Folkerts. (Master of arts) 2016 Foundation of the SOWATORINI Landscape office. Since 2014 lecturer (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel, Muthesisus Kunsthochschule, Kiel) Since 2019 research assistant at the Department of Landscape Architecture I Design at the University of Kassel, Prof. Röntz

SOWATORINI landscape: Ultimately, the decision of two friends to take the landscape and life into their own hands. By the time we got to this point, we had worked our way into the open space for a number of years through ideas competitions and art projects. The (learned) attitude: The small size of our office offers the opportunity to do a lot, to experiment a lot. We are constantly working on the landscape anew. We work in temporary formats at the interface to art, in private gardens and in public spaces; across all typologies and scales. What sets us apart is the willingness to search and to take the time for it. To be surprised and not to rely on creative reflexes and experience. The sentence that Prof. Cordula Loidl-Reisch gave us in one of the first hours of our studies still applies: “And you too are called upon to discover the new!”