Association of German Landscape Architects

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Association of German Landscape Architects
(bdla)
Association logo
Chair: Till Rehwaldt
Establishment date: October 29, 1913
Number of members: 1300
Seat : Berlin
Website: www.bdla.de

The Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten ( BDLA ) is the professional association of German landscape architects .

There are around 1,300 members, including around 800 freelance landscape architects. In addition to the bdla federal association, there are 13 bdla regional groups in Germany whose competencies relate to the respective federal states. The bdla sees itself as a mouthpiece for independent , salaried and civil servant landscape architects and young professionals. He conducts public relations for the profession and represents their interests and positions in relation to politics, administration and business. In addition to basic and advanced training, the task at the federal and state level is to secure and expand the areas of responsibility of landscape architects. Internationally, the association is active in the International Federation of Landscape Architects ( IFLA ) and in IFLA Europe (European region of IFLA; formerly EFLA).

history

The association was founded on October 29, 1913 in Frankfurt am Main as the Association of German Garden Architects ( BDGA ). Further key data:

  • October 29, 1913: Foundation of the Association of German Garden Architects
  • June 19, 1948: Re-establishment of the Association of German Garden Architects in Hanover, 80 participants from all four zones of occupation
  • 1954: Admission of the BDGA to the International Federation of Landscape Architecture, formation of committees in the BDGA a. a. Competitions, youth care, fee schedule committee, press and advertising, economic policy and scientific questions; A federal office is set up in Bonn
  • 25./26. January 1972: Renaming to Association of German Landscape Architects (bdla)
  • February 13, 1990: Founding member of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture EFLA
  • October 25, 1996: The federal office moves from Bonn to Berlin to the German Architecture Center

organization

Bureau

The presidium directs the fate of the association in accordance with the statutes and the resolutions of the advisory board as the highest decision-making body of the bdla. The members of the presidium and in particular the president represent the association internally and externally. The association's president is Till Rehwaldt ( Dresden ).

federal Association

The federal association represents the interests of the members at national and European level. He maintains close contacts and a. to the Federal Chamber of Architects, to planning, engineering and nature conservation associations, to the parliamentary groups of the German Bundestag and individual members of parliament. The aim of this specialist and lobbying work is to bring the interests of landscape architects into politics and administration, especially in ongoing legislative processes. Furthermore, the Federal Association organizes specialist and advanced training events, both on questions of planning and design, construction technology and management, as well as current developments and legal issues.

At the same time, the federal association, with its office at the German Architecture Center in Berlin, is the point of contact for members and the specialist public, for building owners and clients. It is organized as a registered association .

National groups

Mutual exchange on specialist topics, support from colleagues and dealing with everyday working life together are the pillars of the association's work in the 13 regional groups. The regional groups are usually assigned to the respective federal state. Exceptions are the combined state groups in Berlin / Brandenburg, Lower Saxony / Bremen and Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland.

Technical spokesman

The specialist speakers represent professional positions both internally and externally. They are the experts and contact persons for certain specialist topics and work for the bdla in various committees and working groups, e.g. B. at ministries, chambers and associations. Your work will be Partly supported by the corresponding working groups of the bdla.

Working groups

Nationwide working groups made up of experts for the respective subject were set up for discussion. The members of these working groups are elected and provided by the regional groups. There are working groups for training, landscape planning, public relations and urban planning.

Specialist positions

The association comments on current technical discussions and developments and publishes articles on them. The main topics are: education and training, job description, German landscape architecture award, Europe and international issues, open space planning and garden art, garden shows, landscape planning and nature conservation, nature conservation, building and planning law, public relations, economics, fee and contract management, sports facility planning and competition.

Events

The association offers specialist and advanced training events nationwide. The offer ranges from structural engineering issues to environmental and nature conservation issues to the topics of building culture, garden art and open space design. Annually recurring events are e.g. B. the planner forum, an excursion event that takes place every year in a different city, or the construction manager talks, a professional conference.

German Landscape Architecture Prize

Every two years the bdla organizes a competition for the German Landscape Architecture Prize . The prize is awarded to exemplary projects and their authors. The subject is a contemporary, socially and ecologically oriented open space and landscape planning. Outstanding planning achievements with aesthetically sophisticated and innovative solutions are recognized. The award-winning projects have been published every year since 2002 in a book published by the bdla (see literature).

President

Honorary President:

literature

  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (ed.): 1913–1988 - 75 years Bund Deutscher Landschafts-Architekten BDLA . Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-88579-037-8 .
  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (Ed.): “Re-locate - Making Spaces” . Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6556-0 .
  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (Ed.): Event Landscape? - Event Landscape? . Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-7016-5 .
  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (Ed.): Playrooms - Changing Places . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7206-0 .
  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (ed.): Transitions - Insight Out . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7958-2 .
  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (Ed.): System landscape - contemporary German landscape architecture . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0079-8 .
  • Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (ed.): Living greener. green living. Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-0346-0755-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presidium bdla
  2. ^ Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten BDLA eV, Association register no .: VR 17499, Charlottenburg District Court .
  3. ^ Portrait of the new IFLA President. Richard Schreiner, with curriculum vitae and photo. Retrieved April 16, 2015 .
  4. ^ Bdla Honorary President Prof. Adolf Schmitt has passed away. (No longer available online.) March 31, 2014, archived from the original on March 23, 2016 .;
  5. ↑ Landscape architects are successfully helping to shape the future. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 .;
  6. ^ Obituary for Prof. Holger Haag, President of the BDLA from 1989 to 1995. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2013 .;
  7. ↑ Partner TGP landscape architects. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2013 . ;- the period collides with the presidency of Hoppenstedt
  8. ↑ see GND 113030797
  9. ↑ Green Infrastructure - A Future Theme in Landscape Architecture. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 .;
  10. ↑ Presidium bdla. Retrieved April 16, 2015 .