Contacts and directories of landscape architecture practices or employers:
MARK the Finnish association of landscape architects lists just 27 offices, ref. www.m-ark.fi link via “toimistoja” (offices). Below the addresses are names of landscape architects working in each company. Most of the offices are very small, having just one landscape architect. MARK also has an e-mailing list of its members ( around 100 landscape architects). MARK’s responsible for Public Relations, Anna Böhling looks after the email list (anna.bohling@pp.inet.fi)
job adverts and vacancies,
Job advertisements are rare, one possible magazine is Arkkitehtiuutiset, the news and information bulleting of SAFA (Finnish Architects Association) and MARK (and some other associated planning disciplines).
Anneli Wilska 20.2.2005
France
Contacts :
The Fédération Française du Paysage represents about a third of France’s landscape architects, and has a web site at www.f-f-p.org. Here you can find a list of members, with their contact details (follow the link to les associations régionales, and the details of the six recognised French schools of landscape (via the page les formations d’architecte paysagiste).
Jobs:
An independent website is http://www.lespaysagistes.com which has job offers and on which you may place you c.v. and which also lists landscape offices (useful as only a minority of French landscape architects join the FFP). The national site recruitment and job search site is http://www.anpe.fr/. Landscape Architects (paysagistes or architectes-paysagistes) are part of the BTP section (Batiment Travaux Public). Each section has a ‘rome’ code (Code emploi métier) the one for BTP is 61211.With this code on the web site you can check all the jobs offers in this section ‘région par région’ thoughout France and also internationally. The ANPE site also links to individual specialist employment agencies on
http://www.anpe.fr/informations/sites_utiles/france/theme68.html.
The national job seeker office for ‘cadres’ or salaried employees is www.apec.fr is; type ‘paysagiste’ and offers appear. Many vacancies also are listed in the associations of ex-students linked to the individual schools of landscape architecture (check the www.efla.org website for details of school under the Education section) or are displayed on notice boards in the school premises. Many landscape architects find work by ringing around, and sending CV’s, using addresses found using the F.F.P. member list, the directories of ex-students published by the schools (known as annuaires), or telephone yellow pages, etc. Avoid wasting time and money, when using the lists, by checking the status of the landscape architect concerned- because many of the names listed will be employees (salariés). In the telephone directories, landscape architects are listed as paysagistes DPLG, which distinguishes them from contractors. DPLG means diplomé par le gouvernement.
The most effective method of job finding in France is by networking, so if you do have any contacts, however tenuous, in the French world of landscape or in one of its linked professions, use them!
Internships and pay
Internships are known as stages and are seldom advertised; most are found by a direct approach to a landscape office. A stage can be for varying periods, usually around one to eight months, and is not always paid. When paid, this is usually at a maximum of around one third of the French minimum wage, so a normal salary for a stage is around €300 euros a month.
Mathias Voell, 18.3.2004
François Vahé 6.11.2004