Apply through the online process. Closing date 22 January 2019

The bdla has awarded the German Landscape Architecture Prize for the 14th time. With the more intensive use of urban and landscape spaces, ever higher demands are being placed on the performance of the environment. Urban growth and simultaneous emptying of rural regions, climate change, energy transition and economic challenges generate pressure to adapt and conflicts. Great efforts are currently being made to adapt existing infrastructures to the changed conditions, and entire systems are being rebuilt. The development and implementation of these new systems requires a fundamental rethink at all planning levels.

The prize is awarded to exemplary projects and their authors. The subject matter is socially and ecologically oriented settlement and landscape development as well as contemporary open space planning. The prize is awarded for outstanding planning achievements, including conceptual ones, which demonstrate aesthetically sophisticated, innovative, ecological and participatory solutions.

Horst Seehofer, the Federal Minister of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs, has been requested as patron.

Participation and participants

Participation in or submission of projects to the German Landscape Architecture Award 2019 competition is online. The competition language is German. The closing date is 22 January 2019.
German landscape architects or landscape architects resident in Germany, persons with a degree in landscape architecture/landscape management, members of other disciplines, provided they are members of the bdla, and consortiums with the participation of the aforementioned are eligible to participate. Clients in particular are invited to submit work by those entitled to participate.
A participation fee of 200 euros is to be paid per project. The participation fee is waived for projects submitted by designers who are bdla members; it is covered by the bdla membership fee.

Prize jury

Top-class judges guarantee an adequate evaluation of the submitted projects. The bdla presidium has appointed the following jurors:
- Prof. Arch. DI Maria Auböck, Landscape Architect, ÖGLA Vice President, Vienna
- Maik Böhmer, Planorama Landscape Architecture, Berlin
- Jan-Dieter Bruns, Bruns Pflanzen, Bad Zwischenahn
- Prof. Dr. Swantje Duthweiler, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Freising
- Josephine Facius, impuls°Landschaftsarchitektur, Jena
- Cordula Fay, GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen e. V., Berlin
- Prof. Inga Hahn, Hahn Hertling von Hantelmann, Berlin/Hamburg
- Gesa Loschwitz-Himmel, Dipl.-Ing. Landscape Architecture and Journalist, Munich
- Till Rehwaldt, Rehwaldt Landscape Architects, Dresden, bdla President
- Prof. Rainer Sachse, scape Landscape Architects, Düsseldorf
- Petra Wesseler, President of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Berlin

First prize and awards

The jury evaluation will take place in two steps; the pre-selection with nomination will take place online by 5 March 2019. At a meeting on 12 April 2019 in Berlin, the jurors will decide on the awarding of the First Prize and the awards in the categories:- Public Space as Centre, - Neighbourhood Development / Living Environment, - Use of Plants, - Nature Conservation and Landscape Experience, - Young Landscape Architecture, - Landscape Architecture in Detail, - Sport, Play, Movement, - International Projects.

Award ceremony

The award will be presented at a ceremony on 20 September 2019 in Berlin. On this occasion, the award-winning works will be presented to the public, A documentation with all award-winning projects as well as the works nominated for the competition German Landscape Architecture Award 2019 will be published at the award ceremony.

Sponsors

A big thank you goes to the sponsors of the German Landscape Architecture Award 2019, the companies Bruns-Pflanzen-Export GmbH

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