IFLA Jellicoe awarD 2025
Günther vogt
The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of Landscape Architecture, proudly announced that Günther Vogt is the winner of the 2025 IFLA Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture.
The Jellicoe Award is the preeminent award for landscape architects and the highest honour IFLA can bestow. The jury, composed of the chair, a member from each of the five IFLA regions worldwide and a guest member, agreed that “Günther Vogt is one of the most influential landscape architects and his lifetime achievements, both in practice and theory, have had a profound and lasting impact on the global advancement of landscape architecture.”
Informed by a thoughtful interdisciplinary and contextual approach, his distinctive body of work underlines the cultural significance of the profession. In addition to his practical and design work, his academic and teaching activities as well as his efforts to bridge academia and practice have also had a vast impact on landscape architecture.
In 2000, Günther Vogt founded VOGT Landscape Architects, emerging from his partnership with Dieter Kienast in Zurich, and now operating with studios in Zurich, Berlin, London and Paris. Landmark projects include the design of the open spaces of the Tate Modern in London, the Allianz Arena in Munich and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt as well as the Masoala Rain Forest Hall in Zurich. High-profile collaborations with architects, artists, sociologists or environmental specialists not only result in remarkable and generous projects that spark discussion about our relationship to nature but also have the potential to change the general perception of the profession.
From 2005 to 2023, Vogt was a professor of landscape architecture at the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) within the Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich, the Federal Institute of Technology.
With his teaching he has been influential for a new generation of landscape architects. In 2012, he was also lecturing as a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Furthermore, he held more than 200 talks mainly in an academic context.
With the founding of Case Studio Vogt in 2010, an innovative platform between academia and practice was created. For years, the Case Studio has not only hosted debates and various teaching formats but has also carried out numerous projects and exhibitions. With Vogt’s retirement at ETH Zurich in 2022, the Case Studio was reorganized, but the basic idea as a place of exchange and development was intensified.
His passion for looking at new ways to read, interpret, and describe landscapes is represented in all different facets of his work and resulted in a series of publications and exhibitions adding significant theoretical contributions to the profession. The publications include Miniature and Panorama (2012), Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities. In Search of a Position (2015) or Mutation and Morphosis - Landscape as Aggregate (2020).
In 2012, Vogt became the first landscape architect to be awarded the prestigious Prix Meret
Oppenheim from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. He also received the Schulthess Gartenpreis in 2010 and an Honorary doctorate from the University of Liechtenstein in 2018.
As excellent and passionate landscape architect, dedicated educator and an intellectual leaderwithin the field of landscape architecture Günther Vogt is the perfect recipient of the 2025 Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture and the jury felt that he richly deserves the highest honour that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect.
The IFLA Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest honour that the International Federation ofLandscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect. The Award recognizes a livinglandscape architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment and on the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture. The award is bestowed annually on an academic, public or private practitioner whose work and achievements are respected internationally.
THE AWARD
The IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest honour that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect. The Award recognizes a living landscape architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment and on the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture. The award is bestowed annually on an academic, public or private practitioner whose work and achievements are respected internationally.
The IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award was launched in 2004 on a quadrennial basis but since 2011 it has been bestowed annually. Its inaugural recipient was Peter Walker (USA) in 2005. Since then, the previous winners are:
2024 James Corner (USA)
2023 YoungSun Jung (South Korea)
2022 Adriaan Geuze (The Netherlands)
2021 Jala M. Makhzoumi (Iraq)
2020 Kongjian Yu (China)
2019 Kathryn Gustafson (USA)
2018 Anne Whiston Spirn (USA)
2017 Dirk Sijmons (The Netherlands)
2016 Peter Latz (Germany)
2015 Mario Schjetnan (Mexico)
2014 Sun Xiao Xiang (China)
2013 Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles (Portugal))
2012 Mihály Möcsényi (Hungary)
2011 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (Canada)
2009 Bernard Lassus (France)
2005 Peter Walker (USA)
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1910–1996), IFLA President of Honour, served IFLA as its founding President from 1948 to 1954. He was a trained architect, town planner, landscape architect and garden designer, but his prime interest was in landscape and garden design. Jellicoe was a founding member (1929) and then President of the Institute of Landscape Architects (now the Landscape Institute) and was knighted for services to Landscape Architecture in 1979. In 1994, he was given the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest award, the Victoria Medal of Honour.
The Jellicoe Award recognizes a living Landscape Architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment, and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture.
The 2025 SGJA International Jury was chaired by Peter Zöch (Austria) and included: Alessandro Filla Rosaneli, Americas, Anna Lambertini, Europe, Nayla Al Akl, Middle East, Dorothy Tang, Asia Pacific, Finzi Saidi, Africa and Ziying Tang, who was the guest member of the jury.
The Secretariat for the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, which oversees all aspects of the award, includes Diana Wiesner and Hayriye Esbah Tuncay and is directed by Gareth Doherty.