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Alejandro Gatica
How BIM is Changing Landscape Architecture: A Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies
Alejandro Gatica, Principal BIM Manager at Gillespies, on bringing BIM and Revit to landscape architecture. Profile, projects and podcast CPD.
- Current role
- BIM Manager
- Practice
- Gillespies
- Location
- Manchester, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0232 · Architecture Social
How BIM is Changing Landscape Architecture: A Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies
Exploring BIM for Landscape Architecture with Alejandro GaticaIn this episode, Stephen Drew hosts a discussion with Alejandro Gatica, a seasoned architect and BIM manager from Gillespie's. They delve into the intricacies of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) for landscape architecture. Alejandro shares his journey from traditional architecture to specializing in landscape projects using Revit and other BIM tools. They explore how BIM can be adapted for landscape design, common challenges,
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Selected work
Selected work.
Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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.
Explore the project ↗Oxford, United Kingdom
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.
Explore the project ↗York, United Kingdom
Coney Street Riverside
A planning-approved public-realm strategy reconnecting York's historic shopping street with the River Ouse.
Explore the project ↗Other public work
Rochdale Town Hall Public Realm ↗
A new civic square and landscape that reconnect the Grade I listed town hall with everyday public life.
3 Sheldon Square ↗
A biophilic landscape retrofit adding planted balconies and accessible outdoor space to a Paddington office.
About
The story so far.
The person behind the 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.
His project experience includes the rooftop landscape at Google's headquarters in King's Cross, a new grassland habitat and overnight accommodation at Chester Zoo, and the elevated viaduct park above Stockport Interchange.
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Transforming Landscapes with BIM: In Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies.
The practice
Gillespies
We turn human stories into extraordinary spaces
Landscape design practice · Greater London
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- BIM Manager
- Practice
- Gillespies
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2025
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