The practice of Latz + Partner focuses on "the renewal of destroyed and often contaminated sites, - a new balance in the traffic infrastructures and - the spatial and material framework of ecological programmes." Their work tackles gritty urban and industrial sites with attention to expressing the history and character of the land.

The website may be a bit cumbersome to navigate and dense, but it is packed with information and images just waiting to reward the focused browser. Plus, you can take your pick of German, English or French text... In Ordnung; all right; bien.

Link: Latz + Partner

Considering we understand avant-garde landscape architecture like architecture and the other arts as a translation of abstract ideas, ideas of nature, ecology and society. Then it seems very likely to understand design as an "invention" of information layers which overlap with existing systems, before we can think of shape or expression at all. The site itself and ecological programs are forming the spaces of the future.