Online exhibition of the bdla on the history of the profession updated
It is a journey through the history of landscape architecture in Germany: 111 projects from 111 years, key events, highlights and milestones. It was based on the "100 years of landscape architecture" website launched in 2013, which has now been updated until 2024.
To mark this year's 111th anniversary of the bdla, the online exhibition has been redesigned and technically revamped as an independent component of the association's successful "Landscape Architecture Today" website. Visitors can expect an in-depth look back at the history of the profession through to current topics such as climate adaptation and green infrastructure.
A total of 60 authors set themselves the challenge of presenting the selected projects and events in a way that is not only professionally sound, but also appealing to the general public - without any claim to completeness, but with a great deal of expertise. There is a project for every year between 1913 and 2024. In their diversity, they represent the profession's field of activity in the respective period, what remains and what changes.
Global challenges shape recent history
The 111 years are divided into six eras and the newly added era from 2015 is visibly characterized by the climate challenges. The advisory committee, consisting of Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich, Prof. Dr. Martin Prominski, Gudrun Rentsch (bdla Vice President) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Schwarzkopf, agreed with the bdla project group (Almut Jirku, Franz Reschke, Petra Schoelkopf) to begin the current epoch with events that are significant on a global level: The Paris Climate Agreement and the adoption of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals provide a framework that is relevant to work in landscape architecture at all levels.
The selected projects come from all fields of landscape architecture. Landscape planning, landscape architecture in urban planning and individual projects, mostly in the urban environment, all have to do with climate change in one way or another, and almost all of them also contribute to improving biodiversity. The projects and events listed show the many ways in which the profession has a social impact with its planning: For example, landscape planning makes an important, albeit often not so visible, contribution to the energy transition. Well-prepared site selection and the involvement of those affected from the outset can speed up planning and increase acceptance. In many projects, places are adapted to climate change for the benefit of the neighborhoods and transformed into beautiful and usable spaces as habitats for people, animals and plants.
Discover how landscape architecture shapes cities, villages and landscapes and how perspectives and design themes have changed over the decades:
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