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Alejandro Gatica
BIM Manager · Gillespies
Principal BIM Manager at Gillespies, specialising in BIM and Revit for landscape architecture.
- Current role
- BIM Manager
- Practice
- Gillespies
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2025
The story so far
The path behind Alejandro's work.
Alejandro Gatica is Principal BIM Manager at Gillespies, where he leads the implementation, coordination and delivery of BIM for landscape architecture across the practice's Manchester and Leeds studios. A qualified Part II architect from Chile, he has spent more than eight years applying Revit to landscape and public realm projects, helping landscape architects adopt digital workflows originally built for buildings.
He holds a master's degree in BIM platforms and methodologies from Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville and is a certified Autodesk Revit Professional in Architectural Design, with advanced skills in Dynamo and Grasshopper for parametric modelling and automation. Before joining Gillespies in 2021 he spent three years with a landscape studio in Dubai, delivering coordinated BIM models for large scale developments in the Middle East.
Episode 0232 · Architecture Social · 49:56
How BIM is Changing Landscape Architecture: A Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies
BIM is often discussed through buildings, but landscape architecture has its own technical challenges, workflows and opportunities.
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction and welcome
- 02
01:40 · Meet Alejandro Gatica
- 03
02:05 · Alejandro's journey with Revit
- 04
04:04 · Challenges in landscape BIM
- 05
06:31 · Exploring BIM for landscape architecture
- 06
07:59 · Showcasing projects
Profile in brief
The work and context behind Alejandro's conversation.
- Current role
- BIM Manager
- Practice
- Gillespies
- Location
- Manchester, UK
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We turn human stories into extraordinary spaces
- Greater London
- Residential
- Commercial
- Mixed-Use
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
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Meet Alejandro Gatica
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Alejandro's journey with Revit
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Challenges in landscape BIM
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Exploring BIM for landscape architecture
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Showcasing projects
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Gillespies and company culture
Selected work from Gillespies
Three projects, one connected practice.
A closer look at the practice’s work
West of Ifield
A landscape-led framework for a proposed 3,000-home community west of Crawley, with half of the site planned as public open space.
View project →Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme
A landscape-led flood scheme that combines a new stream and lowered floodplain with habitats and public routes west of Oxford.
View project →Coney Street Riverside
A planning-approved public-realm strategy reconnecting York's historic shopping street with the River Ouse.
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