As a short theoretical basis for our work at the chair, we invoke 10 theses, which I formulated for the exhibition in the Architekturgalerie Luzern in 1992 and which, in a slightly revised version, we consider continue to remain valid. 1.Our work is a search for the Nature of the City, whose color is not […]
Following the official UN synthesis reports by leading global climate monitoring bodies, including the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Secretary-General António Guterres formally stated that “humanity has missed the 1.5 °C goal.” The target to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels emerged in the Paris […]
“I have always been surprised by this lack of theory — and of history as well. Even prominent colleagues of ours can hardly name five masterworks essential for them … This means that some professionals work in the field without fully knowing what they do when they claim to practice landscape architecture.”
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) has been selected to develop the design guidelines for the transformation of the former 2.1-kilometre (1.3-mile) runway at the heart of YZD, a 149-hectare redevelopment project on the former Downsview Airport lands in Toronto. The selection follows an international competition organised by Northcrest Developments, attracting 47 submissions from more than […]
Streets are possibly the most complex public spaces to design. By definition, they are non-rivalrous and non-exclusive public good, granting accessibility to all. Pedestrians, cyclists, public transport, cars, fire and emergency trucks, deliveries—all stake competing claims on the same limited surface. Streets are designed under the highest constraints, yet must provide for everyone.
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2025 National Landscape Architecture Awards at the annual Festival of Landscape Architecture. A total of 36 projects were recognised across 17 categories, highlighting the profession’s response to climate challenges, community needs, and cultural recognition. Jury chair Kate Luckraft noted that this year’s […]
The Academy of the Arts Vienna organises a Hands On Lecture Series: As practitioners, the ways we act in urban space and that we act with urban space is undergoing critical revision. While our cities are in multiple crisis, future form and function of the urban habitat can only be a speculation. We cannot know […]
The essay argues that climate collapse pushes ownership into public responsibility and aesthetics into a medium of obligation. Landscape architecture can cultivate perceptual resilience, an ethics of design attuned to disorder, shared accountability, and the mutable nature of life.
We asked Robin Winogrond to share which publications she has been reading lately and finds particularly relevant for landscape architects today. Here is her selection: Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley Under such premises as “to talk about design is to talk about the state of […]
In early October, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) held an annual Climate Week New York City, where they addressed “the urgency to align climate, nature, and finance agendas”. WBCSD is a “global network of 250+ leading companies driving sustainability as a key driver of competitiveness”, including Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Autodesk, Bayer, Bentley, […]
Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and his office Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU) are the recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. The award, administered by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), is a prestigious prize dedicated exclusively to landscape architecture. It is given biennially to a living practitioner whose work demonstrates […]
The Krater Collective is a group of transdisciplinary artists who have decided to transform their professions, studios and working conditions in order to act as advocates for a self-determined ecosystem in an abandoned construction pit in Ljubljana. In Crafting Biodiversity, they expand over their fenced-off domain.
The news of Kongjian Yu’s sudden death two weeks later sent shockwaves not only through the nearly 1,500 participants of the congress in Nantes, but through the entire landscape architecture community worldwide. Many, myself included, had known him for more than two decades, meeting him at ASLA Annual Meetings, the Barcelona Biennale, the World Architecture Festival, IFLA congresses, and countless other events.
The IFLA Asia-Pacific (APR) Regional Congress will convene at the Jio World Convention Center in Mumbai under the banner “Growth Paradox: Reimagining Landscapes”. Organized by the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA), the gathering will bring together leading thinkers, practitioners and scholars in landscape architecture across Asia-Pacific to interrogate a paradox at the heart of […]
In September 2025, the international community crossed a decisive threshold in ocean governance. The so-called High Seas Treaty secured its 60th ratification, triggering its entry into force on 17 January 2026. This moment marks the culmination of two decades of negotiation and signals a long-awaited step towards legal protection of the world’s “oceanic commons”. The […]
Between 17 and 21 November 2025, the 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place under the motto Natural Intelligence. Since its beginnings in 1999, the Biennial has become one of the most significant international platforms for landscape architecture — a space where practice, research, and education converge. We spoke with Marina Cervera, executive […]
Landscape architecture should engage intensively with conviviality—it has the capacity to unify many issues in current theoretical debates and connect the discipline to the global network of the conviviality movement.
BOGL are the recipients of the 2025 LILA Office Award. They operate from offices in Copenhagen and Oslo with a steady focus on the shared grounds of urban life. Rather than seeking signature forms, the practice has built its reputation on attentiveness — to site conditions, to communities, to the long horizons of climate change, […]
The 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place from 17 to 21 November 2025, under the Natural Intelligence?! theme. This edition explores both natural and artificial intelligences shaping contemporary landscapes and will feature a mix of free sessions, a symposium and awards, and a keynote lecture by James Bridle. The Programme Features: Sessions […]
Multispecies Urbanism (MU) concept proposes that cities be designed and governed for the multispecies whole. In her manifesto, artist, infrastructure activist, and researcher Debra Solomon argues that healthy urban environments for humans are inseparable from the flourishing of other species and their microbial consortia. MU treats ecological labour—cooling, water buffering, pollination, soil formation—as infrastructural work […]
We are sad to report that Kongjian Yu died on September 23, 2025. Yu was a farmer’s son from Zhejiang who became the architect of a new ecological urbanism. After early studies in Beijing and a doctorate at Harvard GSD, he returned to China in the late 1990s to found the College of Architecture and […]
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will hold its 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture from 10 to 13 October at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The event is the largest annual gathering of landscape architecture professionals in the world. This year’s general session keynote will be delivered by Mitch Landrieu, […]
The 2025 Festival of Landscape Architecture, organised by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), will take place in Nipaluna / Hobart from 19 to 21 October 2025, on the unceded lands of the Palawa people. The theme for this year’s edition is “DARK”—an inquiry into landscape through absence, ambiguity, and non-linearity. Curated by Miriam […]
An essay on how we push animals into playing roles — from fables and films to renders of biodiversity and art — tracing how these projections tame, abstract, or estrange, and how synurbists and artists unsettle the human–animal divide.
Growing up on a farm in Tyrol, surrounded by repetitions of natural processes to which rituals and traditions attune, Weinberger developed an understanding of the nature–culture relationship observed from the periphery.
Scientific research into animal behaviour still rests on many deeply ingrained assumptions about what is deemed to be “natural” human behaviour. For example, men—males—are assumed by nature to be more dominant and aggressive than women—females. And if men are violent, then the violent behaviour of other male animals in the wild can supposedly be explained […]
The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) has announced Günther Vogt, who received LILA 2025 Honour Award, as the recipient of the 2025 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, the highest honour bestowed by the Federation. The award recognises a landscape architect whose lifetime achievements have had a profound and enduring impact on the discipline worldwide. The […]
Skin-to-Skin Architecture is about rethinking how we design cities and buildings, not just as objects we use, but as spaces that touch us back. Inspired by the power of skin-to-skin contact in neonatal care, where a caregiver’s touch stabilizes, calms, and connects, we ask: what if our built environment could do the same? In Skin-to-Skin, […]
The IFLA World Congress is coming to Nantes, France, from 10–12 September 2025, bringing together leading voices in landscape architecture. With more than a thousand participants expected (professionals, researchers, businesses, etc.), this event will be a unique moment of sharing and networking. Recognized as the largest annual event for the profession, this Congress will bring […]
The 2025 ECLAS Conference, themed “agriCULTURAL Landscapes,” is set to convene from 6 to 10 September 2025 at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. This edition invites scholars and practitioners to reflect on the ecological, cultural, social, and economic dimensions of landscapes shaped by agriculture. Programme Includes, among others, a Keynote Lecture by Univ.-Prof. […]
The Belgian Association of Landscape Architects and IFLA Europe organise an essential conference that will gather 300+ landscape architects, urban thinkers and policymakers to explore how cities can be regenerated into sustainable, inclusive and beautiful places, fully aligned with New European Bauhaus values. The conference will be held in English and is taking place in Brussels at CIVA – Centre for landscape architecture, […]
In this article, we enter into a conversation with Danilo Milovanović (DNLM), an artist based in Slovenia, whose practice in public space leaves behind socio-political and environmentally engaged commentaries. His interventions open up civic debate and make visible the tensions that shape contemporary urban life. Trained in the visual arts, Milovanović positions his practice outside […]
In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]
Biennal Internacional De Paisatge Barcelona introduces 8 finalists for the Rosa Barba Prize 2025. The winner will be announced at the symposium, taking place in Barcelona, 17-21 November 2025, accompanied by a rich program. Among the Finalists, there are the following projects: – Urban Balcony by Kongjian Yu – Turenscape, – Waterscape Park by […]
It was 2 AM, and I was still scrolling through thousands of digitized drawings in the Olmsted archive on Flickr. Six hours in, my avocado toast sat half-eaten, but I couldn’t pull myself away. These hand-drawn plans were so much more alive than the sterile digital renderings that I have gotten so used to seeing […]
I have spent the last two weeks conducting field research at a large music festival located in the interior of Portugal. Every day, I would wake up in my tiny tent and walk into a stunning landscape. Walking around the grounds of the festival every morning was my favorite activity, indulging in the lake around […]
Mental health disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and paranoid schizophrenia affect masses of people worldwide. These conditions not only challenge individuals but also deeply affect their relatives and communities. While clinical treatments remain essential, there is increasing recognition of the therapeutic role landscapes can play in supporting mental health recovery. Historically, nature […]
Organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), the online event commemorates the occupation of the Alcatraz Island by the Indigenous people. On March 9, 1964, five Lakota Sioux briefly occupied Alcatraz Island, declaring it “Indian Land.” A longer and more influential occupation followed from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, when the group “Indians […]
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (FBSR) invites you to apply for yearly landscape study scholarships. The next year’s edition will grant two six-month scholarships for research into the landscape and garden culture, around the thematic areas of Landscape project, Theories and policies for landscape and Nature and gardens. Young graduates are welcome to apply by Friday, […]
On a mild evening last April, Room 304 in Pratt Institute’s architecture school, Higgins Hall—an oddly grandiose double-height classroom space with a view of the Manhattan skyline—is packed. The Landscape Seminar Series—launched in 2022 in conjunction with Pratt’s Master of Landscape Architecture program—has invited the iconic land artist and activist Mary Miss to speak as […]
The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 in Barcelona has launched an international student competition under the theme “Becoming. Architectures for a Planet in Transition.” The call invites students in architecture, landscape, and urban disciplines to propose time-based spatial interventions addressing political, social, and environmental transformation. Participants will submit three richly illustrated drawings reflecting found […]
Tempelhofer Feld, one of Europe’s largest urban open spaces, has long been a focal point of debate, particularly since its closure as an airport in 2008. Over the years, the site has sparked public protests, legal disputes, and heated discussions about its future. Now, after a highly anticipated international competition, the winning proposals have been […]
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced its 2025 Honours, recognising leading figures who are shaping the profession’s future across practice, academia, community engagement, and ecological stewardship. This year’s awards reflect a broadened disciplinary scope and a more urgent public mandate. Below is only a selection of the received honours; we congratulate all […]
How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book Norrland, journalist Po Tidholm opens with a poem that captures a long-standing reality: northern Sweden has long been a site of resource extraction— iron […]
As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of what was formerly called ‘the European Landscape Convention’ spare a thought for upcoming generations: Generation Z and especially Generation Alpha are having a difficult time. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place, between the perils of the real world and the dangers of life in […]
Call for entries! The AIPH World Green City Awards return! For the third edition, they invite cities worldwide to participate in this prestigious competition. Share your city’s innovative approaches to urban greening and contribute to the global conversation on sustainable urban development. Building on the success of previous editions, the 2026 awards will celebrate inspiring […]
The jury (Maria Goula, Sotiria Kornaropoulou, François Vadepied, Martin Rein-Cano and Zaš Brezar) selected the projects for the 10th edition of LILA. The editors of Landezine selected the 2025 Honour Award, Office Award and Portfolio Award for Students and Young Professionals.
Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, operating from Winnipeg, Canada, approach landscape architecture less as a matter of monumental authorship and more as a form of quiet insurgency. Their practice resists spectacle, embracing instead small yet resonant gestures, collective processes, and deep attentiveness to context—whether planting 20,000 crocuses into a lawn or constructing an ephemeral Snow […]
