Landscape architecture as a core discipline of the 21st century. The Schelling Architecture Prize 2024 goes to LOLA Landscape Architects!
The Schelling Foundation promotes and awards prizes for seminal design ideas and projects, even those that have not yet been realized. Previous award winners were amongst others SANAA, Zaha Hadid, and Peter Zumthor. For the first time in its 32 years of existence, the Schelling Architecture 2024 Prize is handed to a Landscape Architect.
“The Schelling Architecture Foundation has demonstrated that landscape architecture will become more important in the 21st century than architecture and urban planning in their conventional professional profiles. Instead of overdeveloping and urbanising landscapes, cities need to be ‘renaturalised’ in order to maintain and create healthy living conditions despite global warming.”
According to the jury the candidates for the Schelling Prize 2024 showed how this can be done with excellent examples and research approaches. The nominees were Teresa Gali-Izard, Barcelona/Zurich, LOLA Landscape Architects, Rotterdam and Bureau Bas Smets, Brussels. The decision was made on 20 November 2024. After the three presentations, the prize for architecture went to LOLA Landscape Architects. The Audience Award went to Bas Smets.
