Marco Antonio Valdivia b. 1947 Antofagasta, Chile, Fine Arts Studies at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, at Yale and at the Royal College of Art in London with Bill Brandt. Active as a photographer and a painter. Patrick Taylor was born in France in 1938 and brought up in Scotland where he studied English Literature at Edinburgh University. After a career in academic publishing he became a garden writer specialising in design, garden history and garden plants.
He is on the committee of the Royal Horticultural Society Library and lives and gardens in Somerset. Jacques Wirtz b. 1924 Antwerp Studied Landscape Architecture and Horticulture at the Tuinbouwschool, Vilvoorde. Has worked since 1950 as a landscape architect in Schoten, Belgium. Founded the contracting and design firms of Wirtz Landscape Architecture and Wirtz International which have designed and built gardens in Belgium and neighbouring countries, Spain, Portugal, England, Switzerland and the USA.
Martin Wirtz b. 1963 Schoten Studied Landscape Architecture at the Tuinbouwschool, Melle, Has worked since 1986 as a landscape architect for Wirtz Landscape Architecture and Wirtz International. Peter Wirtz b. 1961 Schoten Studied Music, and later Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Has worked since 1990 as a landscape architect for Wirtz Landscape Architecture and Wirtz International.
