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