Bavarian Landscape Architecture Prize 2024 awarded

This year, bdla Bayern will once again be awarding the Bavarian Landscape Architecture Prize. Projects can now be submitted online to take part in the competition. You can find out until when this is possible, in which categories awards will be presented in 2024 and who the bdla Bayern has appointed to the jury here.

The Bavarian Association of Landscape Architects (bdla) has announced the Bavarian Landscape Architecture Prize for the third time. Since Monday, January 22, projects can be submitted online to take part in the competition. This year, a main prize, awards in six categories and an audience award will be presented.

The bdla Bayern has been awarding the Bavarian Landscape Architecture Prize every two years since 2020. The award is intended to recognize innovative, sustainable and climate-friendly outdoor and landscape spaces of high quality. Furthermore, the award is intended to raise awareness of the field of work of landscape architects in professional circles and among the public.

• Landscape planning and landscape development
• Use of plants and biodiversity
• Construction in existing buildings and circular economy
• Green and blue infrastructure
• Open spaces for people
• Experimental landscape architecture and building in detail

For the first time this year, there will also be an audience award. The projects nominated for this will be announced by bdla Bayern on its website on July 8, 2024. All interested parties can then vote for the Audience Award via an online portal until August 23.

Projects by landscape architects from Germany and abroad can be submitted to the competition. Projects created by working groups with the participation of the aforementioned can also take part. The projects must have been completed in Bavaria within the last five years, i.e. within the period from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023. Further details on the competition, such as the documents to be submitted, can be found on the award website. The project documents for participation in the competition must be submitted online.

• Swantje Duthweiler, Professor of Plant Utilization at the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences,
• Daniel Oden, Ministerial Director and Head of the State Building Construction Department, Bavarian State Ministry of Housing, Building and Transport,
• Theresa Ramisch, editor-in-chief of G+L,
• Katja Aufermann, landscape architect and urban planner,
• Dietmar Straub, Professor at the University of Manitoba, Department of Landscape Architecture,
• Thomas Hauck, Professor at the TU Vienna, Department of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning,
• Michael Hinnenthal, landscape architect, and
• Roberto Kaiser, landscape architect.

Cooperation partners of the bdla Bavaria for the Bavarian Landscape Architecture Award are the Bavarian Chamber of Architects and the Bavarian Association of Garden, Landscape and Sports Field Construction. The Bavarian State Minister for Housing, Construction and Transport, Christian Bernreiter, is the patron of the competition.

The Bavarian Landscape Architecture Prize was last awarded in 2022. Two years ago, the main prize went to the Prinz-Eugen-Park project in Munich by Liebald + Aufermann Landschaftsarchitekten, as well as the award in the “Greening of Buildings and Biodiversity” category. You can find out more about the awards in other categories and the nominated projects here.