{"id":125226,"date":"2025-10-01T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/?p=125226"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:50:27","slug":"jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Jens Linnet, BOGL: No Fixed Method, Attuned Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOGL<\/a> are the recipients of the 2025 LILA Office Award.<\/a> They operate from offices in Copenhagen and Oslo with a steady focus on the shared grounds of urban life. Rather than seeking signature forms, the practice has built its reputation on attentiveness \u2014 to site conditions, to communities, to the long horizons of climate change, and to the immediate textures of everyday use. Their projects range from re-stitching infrastructural voids to designing small neighbourhood spaces, always balancing restraint with ambition.<\/p>\n

A consistent thread in BOGL\u2019s work is the rethinking of resources: leaving what is already there, transforming materials on site, and drawing craftsmanship into processes of reuse. This pragmatism is paired with curiosity \u2014 shifting between sketches, models, and on-site experiments to find forms that resonate with both human and non-human life.<\/p>\n

In the interview, Jens Linnet<\/a>, one of the founders of BOGL\u2014short for Bang & Linnet Landscape, named after co-founder Adam Bang and himself\u2014reflects on the evolving role of landscape architects over the past two decades, on working across scales without fixed methodology, and on how experiments in soil, water, and material cycles shape the office\u2019s contribution to more sustainable and civic urban futures.<\/p>\n

What changes do you observe, since you opened your practice, in demands (and opportunities) towards landscape architects and the profession to fulfil?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot has changed since I graduated in 2003 and since we started the office in 2009. Our profession has taken on a much more central role in urban development. Many of today\u2019s pressing political issues\u2014climate challenges, biodiversity, mobility, health, and social issues\u2014are areas where landscape architects can play a direct role in shaping solutions for more sustainable cities.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, we also felt we were making a difference, working with many of the same themes. But today, there is far more knowledge and awareness. What was once seen as something \u201cnice to have\u201d is now understood as essential to our survival and wellbeing. Climate change makes the need for transformation even more urgent. It is still vital to create beautiful, livable spaces for people, but throughout my career, the range of issues has expanded, making our work more complex, but also more relevant and meaningful.<\/p>\n

In recent years, there has also been a growing recognition that construction\u2014including landscape projects\u2014has a significant climate impact. We need to reduce CO\u2082 emissions, which means thinking much more carefully about the resources we use and how we build and transform in responsible ways.<\/p>\n