The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) has announced Günther Vogt as the recipient of the 2025 IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture.
IFLA president Bruno Marques presented the Swiss landscape architect with the award at a ceremony held today during the 61st IFLA World Congress, taking place in Nantes.
The jury called Vogt “one of the most influential landscape architects.” They said that “his lifetime achievements, both in practice and theory, have had a profound and lasting impact on the global advancement of landscape architecture.”
Vogt founded VOGT Landscape Architects in Zurich in 2000, following the passing of Dieter Kienast who he’d forged a studio with five years earlier. The practice now also has studios in Berlin, London and Paris, and has worked on landmark projects such as 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.
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, and he was a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2012.
Case Studio Vogt was founded in 2010 as a platform between academic and practice, hosting debates and various teaching formats as well as carrying out numerous projects and exhibitions.
In 2012, Vogt became the first landscape architect to be awarded the 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.
The Jellicoe Award is the highest honour that IFLA can bestow, recognising 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.
It was launched in 2004 on a quadrennial basis, with Peter Walker being the first recipient in 2005. Since 2011, it was been bestowed annually, with winners including Dirk Sijmons, Kathryn Gustafson and James Corner.
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