The Lebanese Landscape Association (LELA)
is a collective of professionals, academics and researchers established as a Lebanese NGO in May 2015 and recognized by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) as the National Association for landscape architecture in Lebanon
as of January 1st, 2016

LELA Info/Positions
LELA Membership Form
 

LELA aims to serve as a hub for landscape architecture professionals and academics, students and researchers to discourse landscape in Lebanon and the Mashreq, to demonstrate the value and significance of landscape’s multifunctional framework in realizing sustainable development and securing quality living in villages, towns and cities in the region. LELA strives to raise awareness of landscape architecture by encouraging cooperation between landscape, design and planning programs in Lebanese universities, cooperating with networking with local authorities and through national and international workshops and publications that ameliorate professional best practices.

LELA serves as a portal that connects local professionals with the international body of professionals, keeping them abreast of advances in landscape architecture worldwide while responding to ecological, socio-economic and cultural dictates that continue to shape the emerging profession of landscape architecture in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Events 2018

Title: "The Place that remains", recounting the un-built territory
Date: March 23-24, 2018
Location: Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Description:

Proposed by Hala Younes, professor at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Lebanese American University, and co-organized by LELA and the Arab Center for Architecture, this exhibition comes in line with Freespace, the theme of the upcoming 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. The aim of this conference is to reflect on the Places that Remain and their transformation in the Lebanese territory, un-built spaces, their qualities, their histories and their potential over the last 100 years; from a predominantly rural, productive landscape towards an overbuilt, realty speculative one. Link to the event: http://sard.lau.edu.lb/events/conferences/the-place-that-remains/inde x.php

 

Title: Lectures by Timothy Waterman
Lecture 1: "The Commons, Aesthetics, and Civil Society:
Dimensions of Landscape, Food, and the Built Environment"
Date: Monday March 26 at 6:00 PM
Location: American University of Beirut, Faculty of Agricultural
and Food Sciences / Public Lecture open to all

Lecture 2 & Discussion:
"Democracy and Trespass: Political Dimensions of Landscape Access"
Date: Tuesday March 27 at 6:00 PM
Location: Unit 44 Office, Ain El Mreisseh
Open for free only to LELA Members, guests will have to pay an entrance fee

Lecture 3: "Making Meaning: Minds, Bodies, and Media in Design Education",
part of a LELA Organized conference in collaboration with the Order of Engineers & Architects
Date: Wednesday March 28 from 5:30 to 6:15PM
Location: (To Be Announced)

 

Title: "The Landscape Profession: TAKING THE FIRST STEPS"
Date: Wednesday March 28, 2018 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Location: Order of Engineers & Architects
Description:
A half-day conference organized by the Lebanese Landscape Association (LELA) and the Order of Engineers and Architects (OEA). The conference aims to raise awareness of landscape education and practice in Lebanon, problems and prospects. There will be brief presentations to introduce university programs offering undergraduate degrees in landscape design/engineering, a statement by Mr Jad Tabet, president of the OEA, and lectures by invited speakers Timothy Waterman, Greenwich University, and Chih-Wei Chang, Gravity Praxis.

 

Title: Middle East Landscape Architecture Conference
Date: May 7-8, 2018
Location: Tehran, Iran
Description:
Organized by The Iranian Society of Landscape Professionals (ISLAP), the theme for this conference will evolve around Landscape in Transition. In the recent years, due to different struggles (such as drought, war, immigration, geopolitical changes and so on), the landscape of the Middle East has undergone massive changes that has brought about international crises. In addition to the regional transition, transformation in terms of the concept of the landscape, development in the new technologies and the effects of globalization should be taken into the account. Studying these issues can cause enhancing education, awareness of professionals, intelligent management and logical process in order to face these situation.

Link to the event: http://rd.shahromanzar.org/melac2018/#toggle-id-3

Title: Workshop for adults: "learning about plants and planting"
(To Be Announced)


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