Baden-Württemberg
At the invitation of the Baden-Württemberg branch of the German Association of Landscape Architects, a panel of four experts will discuss key aspects of open space planning for the 2026 Ellwangen State Garden Show.
The focus will be on the permanent facilities remaining after the end of the Garden Show, their integration into urban and regional plans, and their added value for the city, society and the public. Furthermore, the symposium will explore the opportunities and potential of investments in open space planning for future urban development.
From 2.00 pm, participants, interested members of the public and visitors will have the opportunity to take part in a project information session including a guided tour of the State Garden Show site.
Programme
2.00–3.00 pm
Please note the change of venue:
Rooftop Bar at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ellwangen
Project presentation: LGS Ellwangen 2026 - Growth means change
Nils
Degen
, Managing Director of the Ellwangen State Garden Show 2026
Team: Ellwangen State Garden Show 2026
, Marianne Mommsen & team
at relais landscape architects Heck Mommsen PartGmbB, Berlin,
planning for the Ellwangen 2026 State Garden Show
3
.00–6.00 pm
Guided
tour of the State Garden Show grounds
6.30 pm
Sparkassen-Heimatbühne
Panel discussion
“Talk on the Red Sofa” – bdla State Garden Show Quartet
On
stage:
Johannes Graf-Hauber, Commercial Director of the Badisches Staatstheater,
Karlsruhe
Daniel Lindemann, Chair of bdla Baden-Württemberg e. V., GDLA | Gornik Denkel | Landschaftsarchitektur Part GmbB,
Heidelberg
Prof. Sebastian Sowa, Sowatorini Landschaft PartmbB, Berlin,
Geisenheim University,
Institute for Open Space Development, Chair of Design in Landscape Architecture
Marion
Voss, Bayerische Landesgartenschauen GmbH,
Munich
Moderator
Susanne Frey, Director and Curator of LGS Ellwangen
2026
8.00 pm
End of the event
. Registration is required.
Registration deadline
: 17 September 2026
Participation
fee: Attendance at the event is free of charge.
Please note: To attend, you must purchase an LGS admission ticket or hold a season ticket.
Cancellation
policy: Once you have registered, if you are unable to attend, you must notify the organiser by 14 September 2026 at the latest. If it is not possible to send a replacement, a cancellation fee of 25 euros will be charged in the event of a no-show. The invoice will be sent by email.
If there are too few participants, the organisers reserve the right to cancel the event.
Continuing professional development
For
members of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects and for architects and town planners on professional training placements (AiP / SiP) in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture and urban planning, participation in this event is recognised by the Chamber as 4 teaching hours of continuing professional development. This also applies to members of other regional chambers. We ask members of the AKNW to make a personal enquiry at the bdla office in Baden-Württemberg if necessary.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 11. September 2026
The 2026 Annual General Meeting of bdla Baden-Württemberg e. V. took place on 8 May 2025 at the Heilbronn Education Campus. Following a welcome address by the Chair, Daniel Lindemann, the Executive Board presented a review of the activities and developments during 2025. The increase in new members is encouraging, following the entry into force of the new 2025 membership fee regulations at the level of the bdla Federal Association. The treasurer presented the 2025 financial statements; following the audit report, the Executive Board and management were granted discharge.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 19. May 2026
On 22 April 2026, the bdla special seminar ‘Urban Climate and Quality of Life – Climate Adaptation as a Planning Task’ took place at the Mafinex Technology Centre in Mannheim. This was the first instalment on the topic of ‘Heat, Health and the Role of Landscape Architecture’, and also formed part of the bdla’s 2026 campaign theme ‘Landscape Architecture – Climate Change – Health”, at the Mafinex Technology Centre in Mannheim.
Around 60 participants from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate from the fields of landscape architecture and urban planning, as well as from related planning professions, representatives from cities and local authorities, and cooperation partners and sponsors, to discuss key issues relating to climate-adapted urban development with the speakers.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 15. May 2026
Date
: 22 April 2026, 10.00–18.00
Venue
: MAFINEX Technology Centre, Mannheim
, Julius-Hatry-Straße 1, 68163 Mannheim
https://mafinex.next-mannheim.de
Seminar
content: Ongoing climate change is presenting cities worldwide with growing challenges. In particular, the urban heat island (UHI) effect leads to significant health and environmental pressures.
Against this backdrop, the first instalment of the bdla special seminar ‘Urban Climate and Quality of Life – Climate Adaptation as a Planning Task’, focusing on the theme ‘Heat, Health and the Role of Landscape Architecture’, is aimed at professionals in the fields of landscape architecture, urban planning and related disciplines, as well as representatives from cities and local authorities, to discuss key issues relating to the climate-resilient development of our cities.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 12. February 2026
The bdla Baden-Württemberg e.V. has once again awarded a Germany Scholarship for the winter semester 2025 / summer semester 2026 on the Landscape Architecture degree programme at the University of Applied Sciences for Business and the Environment, Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU), with a view to supporting the next generation of professionals.
On 2 December 2025, a ceremony was held in lecture theatres UG 2 and UG 3 in Geislingen to present the certificates to the scholarship recipients.
On behalf of bdla Baden-Württemberg e. V., Birke Hörner, the Baden-Württemberg spokesperson on the bdla Working Group on Training, presented the certificate to Ms Sina Amelie Schopp.
For the duration of the scholarship, Ms Schopp will benefit from a free bdla Junior membership of the regional association.
Should she be interested, and provided her time allows, she is welcome to participate in the work of the executive committee and to help organise events and training courses run by the bdla regional association.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 08. December 2025
The bdla Baden-Württemberg Regional Association e.V. regularly recognises outstanding Bachelor’s theses at the University of Applied Sciences for Business and the Environment (HfWU), Nürtingen-Geislingen, as part of its efforts to promote young talent.
At the graduation ceremony for planning degree programmes on 17 October 2025, students from the Bachelor’s programmes in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning and Nature Conservation, and Urban Planning, together with those from the Master’s programmes in Environmental Protection, Sustainable Urban and Regional Development and Urban-Landscape Transformation were honoured and bid farewell in the main hall of the K3N Stadthalle in Nürtingen.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 03. November 2025
General meeting bdla Baden-Württemberg 2024
On June 20, the members of bdla Baden-Württemberg e.V. met for their annual general meeting at Treffpunkt Baden-Württemberg as part of the State Garden Show Wangen im Allgäu 2024.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 25. July 2024
The competition for the Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Prize 2024 has been decided.
On the evening of April 16, 2024, in the presence of patron Nicole Razavi MdL, Minister for State Development and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the awards were presented in the second year of the competition for the Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Prize at the Hospitalhof Stuttgart.
This event, to which the awarding authority, cooperation partners and sponsors welcomed around 200 guests, was the highlight of the event and the crowning finale of this year's competition.
From 6.30 pm, the first prize, the special prize for "Sustainability and climate adaptation in urban areas", the audience prize and four awards in categories were presented.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 17. April 2024
Lecture
28.02.2024, 11.00 a.m.
Michael Glück, freelance landscape architect bdla
Glück Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH, Stuttgart
www.glueck-la.de
Moderation
Hannah Pinell
New schools are being built across Germany with the help of school construction programs. The school environment and its open spaces are an integral part of holistic school landscapes. Schools are formative components of neighborhood development and identity-forming places in the city.
Schoolyards of various dimensions are presented in a work report. From large campuses with different types of schools to modular school buildings and their individual open spaces. The challenges of sustainable, climate-adapted construction are highlighted, as are the requirements for the open space program of the different types of schools.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 15. January 2024
The competition for the Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Prize 2024 has been decided under the patronage of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Regional Development and Housing.
In the jury meeting at the Haus der Architekten Stuttgart on November 24, 2023, the jurors, led by jury chairman Timo Herrmann, landscape architect bdla, assessed the 18 projects nominated in the first round of judging.
News - Baden-Württemberg · 27. November 2023
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