Hamish Fulton’s work is deeply rooted in nature – in human nature as well as in the natural environment. Hamish Fulton’s artistic medium is walking – walking as an act of appreciation. 

` Walks are like clouds, they come and go. In the memory nowhere to be seen. Walking into the distance beyond imagination. When I say that ‘the walk is the art’, I simply mean that ‘the walk’ is my contribution to contemporary art.` (Hamish Fulton 2021). 

For Fulton, the landscape is not an object, but a physical experience. The artist seeks to make this experience tangible and invites us to share in it – through graphic designs, words, photographs and various objects.

Galerie Tschudi
Rämistrasse 5
8001 Zurich
 

Hamish Fulton bases his art on walks he undertakes as a “walking artist”. The act of walking, the experience of movement and the relationship with nature are at the heart of his artistic practice.

Since the 1990s, Fulton has been initiating ‘public walks’ in urban spaces, to which interested members of the public are invited. Participants move around for a defined period of time according to a few conceptual instructions given by the artist.

Saturday, 11 April 2026
Meeting at 3:30 p.m. Galerie Tschudi (Rämistrasse 5)
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Artist talk
Céline Eidenbenz in conversation with Hamish Fulton
5:30 p.m.

Galerie Tschudi
Rämistrasse 5
8001 Zurich
 

Recently, we were able to lay out the plant material for the final phase of construction at the Uri Cantonal Hospital—under the direction of our long-time project manager, Paul Junker and with the help of landscape architects Helin Can and Josefin Bauer.

Gardeners will complete the planting in the next few days, in time before the plants begin to bud. The new vegetation, together with the existing plantings from earlier construction phases, creates a harmonious overall appearance. We are looking forward to the spring growing season, when the blooming plants will appear to full effect. We are delighted to finally open the Hospital Park in Altdorf to the public after more than 10 years of project planning.

The symposium aims to foster dialogue between ethnobiologists and landscape architects. Our landscape architect Helin Can will give a talk alongside Antonina Nikolic on an ethnobotanical garden in Andorra, which they presented as an experimental design project at ETH Zurich. Other speakers include Annemarie Bucher, Paola Sturla, Johannes Stoffler, Anaisa Garcia Ambrosy and Alice Lemma.

Saturday, 21 March 2026
10:00 to 15:30

Room D 10.2
HIL Building
ETH Hönggerberg
Zurich

Program

Ganz Landscape Architects won the two-stage project competition in Regensberg/ ZH as part of a team with Zurich architects Stücheli Pestalozzi Schiratzki.

A large communal garden forms the new entrance to the Pünt residential development and at the same time creates an identity for residing at the edge of the village. Oak trees mark the paths, which are paved with the region’s typical cat's head cobbles and lead to the houses. A small square with a walnut tree between the front gardens marks the addresses clearly. The private gardens are planted with figs, persimmons, roses, lilacs and other plants, serving as a welcoming calling card to country living. The scattered standard fruit trees in the open meadows emphasize the rural character of the surrounding area. The nearby forest to the north is supplemented with individual trees and groups of trees of the same species. The shallow limestone soil dovetails with the rare maple and summer linden forest and, with its diverse local conditions, offers ideal conditions for a rich variety of flora and fauna on a small scale. Stone scrub extends the exposed rocky areas of the surrounding area, while deadwood enriches the diverse biotope.
 

Thilo Hoffmann Production and Collection in collaboration wit Silvia Converso presents seven proposals from the fields of architecture and landscape architecture for a Signer Museum. Contributions from StudioSer, Tilla Theus, Günther Vogt, Sanchez Morgillo, Hans-Jörg Ruch, Gion A. Caminada, and Ganz Landscape Architects will be on display.

Exhibition opening
5th March 2026, 5:00 p.m.

Studio Thilo Hoffmann
Zürcherstrasse 162A
8952 Schlieren
 

Landscape architect* wins the study contract for the expansion of the premises of the engineering firm Ernst Basler Partner in Zurich as part of the team from the architectural firm CRRA.

The centerpiece of the outdoor space is an oversized water basin in front of a tuff stone wall covered with moss, lichen, and ferns, which was designed by Dieter Kienast in the 1990s. In our search for “nature in the city,” we are responding with the utmost respect to the changing image of nature.

Our proposal expands the dynamic imagery that changes with the weather and climate, which is sometimes imperfect and uncontrolled. A forest garden, a vertical garden, a shade garden, a wall garden, and a weather garden complement Kienast's moss garden in a poetic way and show how nature paints its own pictures.

Judith Rohrer has had a lasting impact on Swiss garden landscapes and provided important impetus for the preservation of historic gardens. Judith Rohrer now takes stock of the last 35 years and presents the book, Zürichs grüne Wunderkammern. The book provides insight into historic gardens as places of living urban history and takes a close look at the emergence and development of the field of garden conservation. Based on various garden designs, Judith Rohrer explains which topics played a role in historic garden conservation. Statements from the co-authors are also presented.

Book Launch
Wednesday, 4th February 2026, 4:00 p.m.

Welcome
Simone Brander, Head of the Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department of the City of Zurich and Ingo Golz, Deputy Director, Green City Zurich

Greenhouse
City Gardens of Zurich
Sackzelg 25/27
 

Ganz Landscape Architects won the two-stage project competition as part of a team with Clauss Kahl Merz and Truwant+Rodet+.

A light forest garden with tall trees such as Scots pine and oakcharacterizes the inner courtyard. Without any substructure, a “wilderness” can establish itself here as a refuge and habitat for people, plants, and animals. The family courtyard is covered with a carpet of gravel and bordered by paved concrete rubble as a threshold and transition to the residential building. Here, low-growing spontaneous vegetation will establish itself between cracks, joints, and the gravel. The planting gardens are located on the quiet side of the house. Roof water is collected in a tower-like catchment basin and used for irrigation. The excess water is filtered and finally reaches the water table with a fountain and sunken water basin in the forest garden of the farm on the ground floor. The remaining water is fed to the forest plants before it finally seeps away.

Jurybericht

BBC is showing the three-part series Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens. The first episode features gardens in Switzerland and Germany. Monty Don visits the MFO-Park, a public park in the Oerlikon quarter of Zurich, and talks about it with Roland Raderschall from raderschallpartner ag.
 

Sophie von Schwerin discusses current research findings on historical landscape architecture and its influence on modernism with Clemens Alexander Wimmer, Jonathan Stimpfle, and Lars Hopstoc . The focus is on perennial breeder Karl Foerster (1874–1970) and landscape architects Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), Leberecht Migge (1881–1935), and Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (1893–1979).

January 15, 2026, 5:30–7:00 p.m.

Technical University of Berlin
Café Planwirtschaft (A060)
Straße des 17. Juni 152
10623 Berlin

 

Ganz landscape architects wish everyone all the best for 2026!