公司历史
德国 EGL 景观事务所（EGL – Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Landschaft GmbH）成立于 1969 年，最初由 Prof. Günther Grzimek、Arnim Koch 和 Jan Michael Runge 三位规划师在卡塞尔（Kassel）联合创立，其前身为 “EGL-Entwicklungsgruppe Landschaftskultur” 协会。1974 年，随着业务规模扩大与组织成熟，事务所转型为合伙制 “EGL – Entwicklungsgruppe für Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH”，正式确立共同决策、共同承担企业责任、共同享有同等报酬的 “Mitarbeiter:innen-GmbH”（员工股份公司）模式。1982 年，鉴于早期名称在部分委托方中含义不够清晰，EGL 重新注册并更名为现在的 “EGL – Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Landschaft GmbH”，自此专注明文德语区景观设计、城市规划与自然环境规划三大方向。
服务范围
EGL 以 “城市–自然–人” 整体观为基础，业务划分为 Städtebau（城市设计）、Freiraum（开放空间设计）、Landschaft & Umwelt（景观与环境规划）三大版块。Städtebau 涵盖可行性研究、框架规划、土地利用规划、城市开发概念、Bebungsplan 各类程序及 Grünordnungsplan；Freiraum 提供从基础调查到落地实施的全流程开放空间设计，含雨洪管理、运动设施、教育与儿童照护场地、公园与绿地、屋顶及建筑立面绿化、BIM 协同等；Landschaft & Umwelt 涵盖 UVP/SUP 环境评估、Naturschutz 专项规划、FFH 栖息地管理、物种与生物群落调查、Umweltbaubegleitung 生态施工监理等专业领域。
组织模式
EGL 是一家由合伙员工共同持有与共同治理的 “Mitarbeiter:innen-GmbH”，全所超过 50 名员工分布在 Landshut、Erlangen、Kassel、Düsseldorf、Lüneburg、Hamburg 六大区域办公室，跨学科团队包含景观设计师、城市规划师、环境科学家、生物学家、Umweltbaubegleitung 专员及施工管理专家。事务所采用民主化、可轮换的 Geschäftsführung（执行董事）制度，所有合伙人对企业经营与社会议题承担同等责任，重大事项通过 Gesellschafterversammlung（合伙人大会）集体决议；这一组织形态在德语区景观设计行业被广泛视为具有里程碑意义的另类治理样板。
代表项目
EGL 在德国六大都市区持续为公共与私人委托方提供景观与城市规划服务，涵盖历史城区开放空间更新、雨洪管理与气候适应型绿地设计、Artenschutzrechtliche Fachbeiträge 物种保护专项、Landschaftspflegerische Begleitpläne 景观维护伴随规划，以及教育与儿童照护机构户外场地设计等行业典型场景。事务所以民主化合作模式与生态规划哲学著称，长期与 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Kassel 等高校保持密切教学互动，并通过 Gesellschafterversammlung 与 Bürotreffen 跨办公室年会的形式持续推动所内知识沉淀。2025 年的合伙人大会与跨办公室年会选址于 Kassel，2026 年度的 Kartiersaison（生物群落调查季）已于三月开启。
行业影响
作为欧洲历史最悠久的 Mitarbeiter:innen-GmbH 形态景观设计事务所之一，EGL 通过 50 余年坚持 “Demokratisierung des Grüns”（绿化民主化）的规划哲学，对德语区景观建筑与生态规划领域产生了持续影响。事务所于 1997 年迁入 Kassel 的 FiDT 科技与创业者中心，2008 年起即在 Hamburg 区域办公室深耕 Elbe 与 Heide 之间的生态多样性议题；其跨办公室协作机制和员工共同治理模式长期被德国景观建筑行业评论视为 “Alleinstellungsmerkmal”（独特品牌资产），并成为 Hochschule Kassel 等高校研讨景观规划组织形态的典型案例。
Company History
EGL – Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Landschaft GmbH was founded in 1969 in Kassel, Germany, by Prof. Günther Grzimek, Arnim Koch and Jan Michael Runge as the “EGL-Entwicklungsgruppe Landschaftskultur” association. In 1974 the studio reorganised into a partnership-style “EGL – Entwicklungsgruppe für Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH”, codifying its “Mitarbeiter:innen-GmbH” model in which every co-worker can become a partner and shares equal entrepreneurial responsibility. In 1982 the name was officially changed to the present-day “EGL – Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Landschaft GmbH”, signalling the studio’s long-term focus on landscape design, urban planning and environmental planning across the German-speaking region.
Service Scope
EGL organises its work around the integrated view of city, nature and people, with three practice clusters: Städtebau (urban design) covering feasibility studies, framework plans, land-use plans, urban development concepts and Bebauungsplan procedures; Freiraum (open space design) covering the full chain from site analysis to built realisation, including stormwater management, climate-adaptation greening, sports facilities, educational and childcare outdoor spaces, park and green-space design, façade and roof greening, BIM coordination and competition work; and Landschaft & Umwelt (landscape and environmental planning) covering UVP/SUP environmental reports, FFH management plans, species and biotope mapping, Umweltbaubegleitung ecological supervision and related specialist studies.
Organisational Model
EGL operates as a co-worker-owned “Mitarbeiter:innen-GmbH” with more than 50 staff distributed across six regional offices in Landshut, Erlangen, Kassel, Düsseldorf, Lüneburg and Hamburg. Its interdisciplinary team brings together landscape architects, urban planners, environmental scientists, biologists, Umweltbaubegleitung specialists and construction management experts. The studio is led by a democratically elected, rotating Geschäftsführung (managing director) team, and all strategic decisions are taken collectively at the Gesellschafterversammlung (partners’ assembly), making EGL a widely cited reference for non-hierarchical governance in the German landscape architecture sector.
Representative Projects
Across its six regional offices EGL delivers continuous landscape, urban and environmental planning services for public and private clients. The portfolio covers historic-city open-space renewal, climate-adaptive green-space and stormwater design, Artenschutzrechtliche Fachbeiträge species-protection studies, Landschaftspflegerische Begleitpläne landscape maintenance plans, and outdoor environments for educational and childcare institutions. The studio maintains long-standing teaching ties with institutions such as the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Kassel, hosts an annual cross-office Bürotreffen and a partners’ assembly – most recently in Kassel in 2025 – and started its 2026 Kartiersaison (biotope-mapping season) in March.
Industry Influence
As one of Europe’s longest-running Mitarbeiter:innen-GmbH landscape studios, EGL has shaped the German-speaking landscape architecture and ecological-planning discourse for more than 55 years by consistently translating the “Demokratisierung des Grüns” idea into practice. Its cross-regional collaboration model has been widely discussed as an Alleinstellungsmerkmal in German landscape-architecture reviews and frequently appears as a case study in German planning-school curricula. From its 1997 base inside the FiDT Technologie- und Gründerzentrum in Kassel to the Elbe–Heide ecological corridor work led from Lüneburg, EGL continues to serve as a reference for democratic, ecologically grounded and cross-disciplinary landscape practice.
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