Tiago Campos

on sabbatical academic year 2026–27

Tiago Torres-Campos is a Portuguese landscape architect whose work explores multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary landscapes, cities, and wider complex territories. His interests focus on intersections between landscape practice and the Anthropocene as well as issues of landscape representation. He co-edited Postcards from the Anthropocene (DPR-Barcelona, 2022), which explores some of these topics.

Torres-Campos’ experimental and speculative work ranges from modeling and digital fabrication to video production and speculative writing. He holds a PhD in Architecture by Design from the University of Edinburgh, where he investigated ways of thinking geologically about Manhattan and published New York Geologics: Representations of Manhattan from the Anthropocene (ORO, 2025).

As a practitioner, Torres-Campos has gained experience in landscape architectural design, regional, and master planning in both urban and rural landscapes. He was responsible for delivering award-winning proposals in international competitions and also for managing the research and international communication teams. 

Torres-Campos published his first historical novel in Portuguese. Constantino, o Rei das Flores tells the story of how a young artisan in 19th-century Paris overcomes life-threatening obstacles to become the best flower maker in the world (Primeiro Capítulo, 2026).

Torres-Campos joined the RISD faculty in 2019. Previously, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the University of Lisbon, Portugal.