Anni Albers (1899– 1994) was a fascinating person and a leading figure of the 20th century in the field of textile design and textile art. She developed original fabrics and used textiles as architectural elements.

A current exhibition at Zentrum Paul Klee focuses on her fabric designs, textile artworks, prints, and drawings. Her fascinating work between design and art is an inspiration also to our work as landscape architects when we weave nature into our projects.  

7 November 2025 through 22 February 2026
Tuesday – Sunday
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3
3006 Bern

Exhibition on Textile Artist Anni Albers – Tagesschau

The Glarus Architecture Forum invites you to a guest lecture. Daniel Ganz will talk about his work as a landscape architect and express his views on landscape architecture. The title of the lecture, “Mountain and Valley”, refers to the regional characteristics of the Glarus region and thus highlights the importance of context in construction.

Tuesday, 18 November 2025; 7 p.m.
Kunsthaus Glarus

The exhibition at the Architekturzentrum Wien is impressive!
Indian architect Anupama Kundoo does not see wealth in her projects in terms of precious materials and perfected industrial products, but rather in the novel use of materials and techniques that are locally abundant. She achieves this by combining high-tech and low-tech, further developing traditional construction techniques, innovative lightweight construction methods, and regional material cycles. Her projects are built knowledge for a new relationship between time, money, and materials. The exhibition brings Kundoo's work to life and is a call for a different kind of architecture. An in-depth examination of Kundoo's work is also highly recommended for us landscape architects.

September 18 – February 16, 2026

Architekturzentrum Wien
Museumsplatz 1 im MQ
1070 Vienna
 

Hands on — Urban Landscape Practices in Europe is the title of the winter semester lecture series by Thilo Folkerts and Christina Condak at the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Daniel Ganz will speak about the craft of landscape architecture.

Monday, October 20
7:00 p.m.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

This year the environmental authorities will award the Hamburger Preis für Grüne Bauten [Hamburg Prize for Green Buildings] for the third time. The award recognizes outstanding green roofs, façades and indoor greening projects.

At the award ceremony and exhibition opening, Daniel Ganz will give a talk on BIRTH OF THE COOL, discussing climate change as an opportunity to take a new look at nature. We are challenged to enter into a constructive dialogue with nature and to expand our thinking and create new vegetation groupings and habitats.  
 

Award ceremony
14 October 2025, 5:30 p.m.

Exhibition Hamburger Preis
15 October – 5 November 2025

ArchitekturSalon Hamburg
Bei den Mühren 70
20457 Hamburg

Hours:
Mon–Wed, Fri, 10 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Thurs, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Sat, 1–6 p.m.
 

Daniel Ganz gives a talk on Garden Stories to Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) students at the design studio of  Ingrid Burgdorf and Valentin Loewensberg in Winterthur. The talk marks the start of the Master’s degree programme ‘60:100 – Outdoor Living Spaces’.

Thursday, 25th October 2025
2 p.m

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften

Departement Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen
Tössfeldstrasse 11
8401 Winterthur

As part of European Heritage Days, Sophie von Schwerin and Sibylle Aubort Raderschall from raderschallpartner ag landscape architects will be giving a guided tour of the cemetery together with the municipality of Horw. The tour will showcase Neukom's atmospheric cemetery design and the winning project from the study commission for its redesign.

Meeting point at the cemetery entrance

Saturday, 13 September 2025
10:00–11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
1:30–2:30 p.m.
 

In an article in the web issue ‘Forces of Fiction’, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Quebec, Canada  investigates how contemporary voices from both within the field of architecture and beyond it are reframing the societal conditions that structure their work. An architect, an artist, and a landscape architect reflect on their recent collaboration on the design and construction of the House for Five Women, a house for women with social disadvantages, in the countryside near Gradacac in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They discuss the challenges of working together with the local community, the question of authorship, and being open to the unplanned and unexpected.

Article 9, ‘From This Place’: A conversation between Lukas Burkart (TEN), Daniel Ganz, and Shirana Shahbazi

Under the motto “Cultivation and naturalness” we spent three days visiting gardens, forests, and garden centres in Schaffhausen, Altdorf, the Zurich wine country, Tösstal, and Eschenbach near Lucerne.

In addition to many experts, we also met the Schaffhausen cantonal forester Andreas Hunziker, the gardening enthusiast Dani Pelagatti, and the ecologist Vincent Fehr at Florafutura, the ‘garden centre of the future.’ And everyone agrees! Climate change has fundamentally altered environmental conditions. Dogmatic thinking and behaviour are no longer in keeping with the times! It is imperative to adapt to the new circumstances by overcoming mental blocks and welcoming new perspectives. Not only flora but also fauna give us new opportunities to shape our environment by creating new vegetation groupings and habitats. The question of which plants are labelled as native/indigenous or non-native/introduced will be superfluous in the future, as the ecosystem has inevitably changed.

Ganz Landscape Architects recently visited Thilo Hoffmann`s Roman Signer collection. We were impressed by the qualitative diversity of Signer's works and by Thilo's detailed and very personal explanations. Sharing food and conversation together in a lively and convivial atmosphere concluded this unforgettable and successful visit.

On Pentecost Saturday we opened our studio for a day to the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gartenkultur (SGGK) [Swiss Society for Garden Culture] and the Swiss Federation of Landscape Architects (BSLA FSAP). Daniel Ganz showed about 25 persons our workspaces, explained our philosophy and how we work, and presented some of our projects based on plans and models. After lunch at Signau House & Garden we went on a walk through other gardens and green spaces/parks designed by Ganz Landscape Architects.
 

A few days ago, Manuel Scholl, the manager responsible for the project at agps architecture, showed us the completed motorway enclosure in Zurich-Schwamendingen. The above-ground box tunnel, a unique and extremely challenging construction project, is around a kilometre long and encloses a six-lane national road. On its roof, an overland park has been created. agps architecture realized this masterpiece together with Krebs and Herde Ladscape Architects, and it impresses us in every respect. The new greenery in the above-ground recreation area offers local residents a 'safari' at their doorstep—with a variety of plants that serve as a source of nectar and promote the biodiversity of wild bees, butterflies, reptiles, beetles, and spiders. 

Curated by architects Elena Chiavi, Kathrin Füglister, Amy Perkins, Axelle Stiefel and Myriam Uzor, working with embedded artist Axelle Stiefel and graphic designer Emma Kouassi, Switzerland’s contribution at the Swiss Pavilion to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – is an exhibition titled Endgültige Form wird von der Architektin am Bau bestimmt [The final form will be defined by the architect on site]. The curators ask: ‘What if Lisbeth Sachs (1914–2002), rather than Bruno Giacometti, had designed the Swiss Pavilion?’

It is at the Swiss Pavilion that the curators aim to revive the short-lived art hall created by Lisbeth Sachs for the 1958 Swiss exhibition for women’s work (SAFFA) in Zurich, in an act of construction that points to the historical absence of women architects in the Giardini and to awaken a spatial memory for lesser-known architectures.

Swiss Pavilion
Giardini of La Biennale di Venezia

Exhibition dates
10 May – 23 November 2025

Close to 400 people attended Rapperswiler Tag at the end of March! Transformation was the topic of this year’s annual symposium of the Association of Swiss Landscape Architects (BSLA) and the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) held at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST).

In his talk "Free your Mind", Daniel Ganz calls on us landscape architects to expand our thinking and our usual vegetation choices. This succeeds when we work with nature, are inspired by nature, and become a part of nature.

Rapperswilertag 2025: Daniel Ganz

Unexpected encounters, playful experiments, and the forces of nature Roman Signer’s art reveals a world full of energy and transformation. The large exhibition gallery at the Kunsthaus Zürich will become an open landscape where time, movement, and material come together in surprising ways.

Until 17.08.2025

Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz
8001 Zürich

Tue–Wed, Fri – Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Thu 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Mon closed
 

At the request of individual members of the Swiss Society for Garden Culture and in memory of Suzanne Kappeler, Suzanne's sisters are opening the garden. Daniel Ganz explains how the garden found its form and its wealth of plants.

Registration: toni@raymann.la

Saturday, April 5, 2025
11 am - 3 pm

Etzikon 18
8618 Oetwil am See
 

Daniel Ganz is an invited speaker at Rapperswiler Tag, the annual symposium of the Association of Swiss Landscape Architects on a current topic in landscape architecture held at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST).

In his talk “Free your Mind”, Ganz will speak on transformation und perception. He invites us landscape architects to sharpen, adjust, and relativize our thinking and perspective. This is a call to enter into a constructive dialogue with nature. This happens when we become a part of nature. Nature is not static; change is its essence. In nature, no state is correct; change and adaptation are the programme. Working with nature means being open to the unforeseen and incorporating the changeable in our planning. Climate change is the growing medium for a different perspective on nature. For us landscape architects this holds enormous potential; we are called upon to expand our thinking and usual vegetation choices.

Rapperswiler Tag
28 March 2025

OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
Campus Rapperswil-Jona
Aula, Gebäude 4
Oberseestrasse 10
8640 Rapperswil

Programme
 

The Basel University Library is dedicating a biographical exhibition, Sehend denkend [Thinking with Sight], to important milestones in the life work of Lucuis Burkhardt and his wife Annemarie Burkhardt.
Lucius Burkhardt's science of 'strollology' or 'promenadology' is a method to increase awareness and form a new understanding of nature and aesthetics.  From the 1980s onward, Burkhardt gave landscape architects new insights into the perception and reality of the landscape and urban space. 
 

On display until 13 August 2025
University of Basel Main Library
Exhibition Room, Upper Floor 1

Hours
Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 10.00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Public Tours
Thursday, 4 April Tour focus Sehend denken, with Martin Schmitz and Jennifer Degen
Thursday 10 April Tour focus landscape, with Thomas Kissling and Fiona Imboden
Thursday 8 May  Tour focus Burkhardt's impact and development, with Kirstin Bentley and Fiona Imboden

The landscaping work is now being completed for the PWG Foundation commercial building newly constructed by BS + EMI Architects. 

Together with Bachmann & Rimensberger gardeners, we are interspersing boulders and stones in the front garden of the building on Flüelastrasse in Zurich. When placing the stones, the landscape architect enters into a dialogue with the stone material. In an almost spiritual way we try to fathom the individual character of each stone and then create a harmonious overall picture. 
 

The Inside/Outside design team under Petra Blaisse created a room divider curtain for our studio premises. We have recently installed and tested it.Together with Amsterdam landscape architects Jana Crepon, Nafsika Efklidou and Radka Komrsová we held a design workshop for our joint project for the high-rise building and the new public pocket park at Sulzerallee in Winterthur, which we working on with Zurich architects Dürig AG and TEN.

In an interview with Landezine, Daniel Ganz gives an insight into his thinking and answers questions about his work as a landscape architect.

Beat Graf and Maja Tobler, who run Gestalten mit Pflanzen [Designing with Plants], a masterclass, are holding a panel discussion on plant use in the future. Daniel Ganz has been invited to join the panel along with Günther Vogt, Piet Altweg, and Fritz Wassmann. The discussion with the participating experts will focus on topics including digitization in plant use, plant care of the future, neophytic plants, and dynamic plant concepts.

Panel discussion:

Saturday, 18 January 2025

Zollhaus
Zollstrasse 121
8005 Zurich