LANDSCAPE AS A SYSTEMS. CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Aided by international discussions within the profession, the view of landscape as the common interface between social, cultural, economic, and other processes is giving rise to new strategies for working with ecosystems. This book analyzes and documents this international development and its significance for landscape architects but also for regional development, city planning, and architecture. With numerous current planning projects and essays by famous authors (including Wolfgang Haber, Claus Käpplinger, and Andreas Rossmann), this attractive book presents the strategies the profession is using to meet these new challenges. For the first time, two other important awards are presented alongside the results of the Deutscher Landschaftsarchitektur-Preis (German Landscape Architecture Award): the celebrated international Peter-Joseph-Lenné-Preis des Landes Berlin (Peter Joseph Lenné Award of the State of Berlin), which is given out annually and this year involved the participation of more than 130 young landscape architects, and the special "Hausgarten" ("Garden") award, which is jointly bestowed by the bdla and the journal Häuser (Houses).