Marly-le-Roi, Île-de-France, France
Daniel Jauslin is a landscape architect, educator and researcher (PhD), lead designer of DGJ Paysages co-founded with Hans Drexler & Marc Guinand in 1999. Educated in architecture & urbanism at ETH Zürich he has 30 y. of international professional & academic experience with designs in many scales, including award winning furniture, buildings, gardens, landscapes, regions, bridges & infrastructures. As lead designer at West 8 Rotterdam he was responsible for designs like the red Amsterdam Footbridges or the Swiss Expo 2002 park at the Blur building aka 'le nuage' in Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland ( w/ Diller Scofidio e.a.) Since 1999 he is a founding director of DGJ Paysages (http://www.dgj.ch) in Zürich and founding partner of DGJ Architektur (http://www.dgj.eu) with Hans Drexler in Frankfurt. At DGJ he is co-author of 300 projects, 30 built projects and 25 awarded competition entries. A licensed architect since 1997 he also became a licensed Landscape Architect in 2011. He currently focuses on a small specialized practice in Zürich, Switzerland and Marly-le-Roi near Versailles, France Daniel Jauslin is a passionate design researcher and lecturer with scientific teaching qualifications (PhD & concours ENSA in France 2019). He will be visiting Professor in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design at Poli Milano in 2027 and was design lecturer & international director at ENSP Versailles & Marseille from 2023. Before he was lecturer at Wageningen University the oldest Dutch School of Landscape Architecture and participated in establish the Master Track LA at TU Delft as lecturer, where he defended his PhD thesis in 2019. Other experiences as a tutor of design studios at various faculties of architecture, urban planning and arts, include IFLA Global Study Program Nantes, The Berlage in Delft, Academy Rotterdam, Uni Innsbruck, Uni of Arts Zürich, Antwerp and Shenzhen. As a researcher he is focussing on publications on architectural and landscape design theory mostly on the theme of Architecture & Landscape Design Strategies. In his 2020-22 exhibition If Buildings Were Landscapes ...” in Zürich, Paris & Delft he shared the research of his phd thesis “Landscapes Strategies in Architecture” (2019). Currently working on a contribution to an updated version of “Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture” with Dr. Sang Lee. Daniel Jauslin co-founded two community gardens in The Hague and is currently engaged for a garden at no-income housing in Rouen and the Global Climate Action Group of IFLA. [Photo: Emma Bluck “Gerhard Richter” Paris 2026]
DGJ Paysages sàrl Zuich & Marly-le-Roi As Co-founder of Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architekten (1999) Daniel Jauslin started his independent business with his architect partners Hans Drexler & Marc Guinand designing & planning buildings and leading the company‘s landscape projects. Around 2010 (and meanwhile a father of 3) he decided to focus on landscape architecture and leads a small specialised design company working first mainly in the Netherlands and later in Switzerland, France and Germany where we associate with DGJ Architektur GmbH Frankfurt am Main
At Laboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage LAREP : After 3 years of academic teaching , program development and strategic management of international affairs of the renowed 50 year old ecole de paysage in Versailles & Marseille i remain connected to the LAREP to follow my research activities mainly in the interdisciplinary exchange of Landscape and Architecture.
Daniel Jauslin etait responsable de la politique de mobilité internationale de l’ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage et du développement des partenariats européens et hors Europe . Il etait chargé d’enseignement au sein du département projet sur le site de Versailles, et a vocation à diffuser largement la culture de l’international au sein de l’école, notamment au travers de l’organisation d’un workshop international et la mise en place de social club. En parallèle, Daniel poursuit ses recherches postdoctorales au LAREP Laboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage et avec plusieurs chaires en Europe, et publie dans des revues et ouvrages professionnels et académiques sur l’architecture et le paysage.
Subjects in the Board : Young & student members, Landscape Architecture & Academia, Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg . I left the board for personal reasons and over a disagreement with the SIA Switzerland central board on how to help our colleagues from NSAU Ukrainian chamber of architects.
SIA International Section https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8310282 is the international chapter of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects. I joined SIA in 1997 in the Zurich chapter and switched to international chapter few years after foundation in The Hague. Having designed ,built, taught and lived as Landscape Architect in six European countries and staying on the move this best represents my relationship to the Swiss roots of engineering and architecture craft and science. When the SIA International came my new home in Paris for its annual assembly, I offered to advise the board in preparation of my candidacy at Madrid in 2024.
In 2018 I gave up my tenured teaching position as lecturer for a relocation of my family to Switzerland. Until the too early disappearance of my Wageningen supervisor Prof. Dr. Adri van den Brink, who had hired me in 2015, I was on his personal invitation a guest researcher of Landscape Architecture. I “used” the title for attribution of my ongoing publications in professional and scientific literature to my time at Wageningen (while also wrapping up my PhD thesis at Delft. After Adri passed away the guest researcher status was not formally maintained.
At Wageningen I was (Co-)Teaching 4 to 6 design studios per year as lecturer Landscape Architecture. Wageningen was originally an agricultural higher education school grown to a top life sciences university. Landscape Architecture was established here for the first time in a Dutch university in 1948 (see Vroom 2014). When extraordinary professor Adriaan Geuze was appointed to his Alma Mater in 2012, he re-introduced Design Studios on Master of Science level with his Master Class Park Design followed by a Second Regional Design Studio on Master Level . My task besides coordinating that Master Class was as a “design studio runner” tie together the new curriculum as it was fully developed in 2015. By 2024 I could see that the basic didactic structure of jumping from local and urban to regional scales twice (first in BSc and second in MSc) with two thesis more applied for Bachelor and more scientific for Master still works, even if a younger and even more international group of lecturers managed to fill in those scales with currently even more acute themes like the energy-, climate- or biodiversity-crises . I work as a design lecturer from freshwomen to graduates in a 3 year BSc and 2 year MSc curriculum. http://www.wur.nl/en/Education-Programmes/master/MSc-programmes/MSc-Landscape-Architecture-and-Planning.htm
teaching elective design studio "Re-Design Rotte River"
as Lecturer and Researcher at Chair of Landscape Architecture the biggest task of our team was to establish the MSc Master Track Landscape Architecture initiated under Prof. Clemens Steenbergen, then bring it through a bumpy stretch of faculty finances and dean changes since the 2008 fire until it’s academic and professional assessment under Prof. Ir. D. Sijmons in 2015. I was giving design, theory and writing classes in Landscape Architecture on all levels from freshmen to diploma, also in fields like bridge design or urban design post graduate courses. In particular I initiated and hosted the « How do you landscape? » visiting lecture series and co-directed the first graduation studios « Flowscapes » on European Landscape Infrastructures with a advanced interdisciplinary and multi-scale methodology that is still in use. Seeing now programme of more then 10 years well prospering - recently enriched with my initial mentor Prof. Adriaan Geuze i am proud of having been part of the team that laid the foundations of the much acclaimed Landscape Architecture programme at the inspirational and renowned TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. Today many young designers from all over the world want to contribute to a better life with our threatened environment rather than against it. If architecture cannot change the world maybe, landscape architecture education could bring forth the designers that could. http://repository.tudelft.nl/search/ir/?q=Jauslin