Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union (ELAU) is the professional organization of Estonian landscape architects, founded in March 24th 2003.

It has founded to:

1) represent and promote the profession of landscape architects in Estonia;
2) protect the creative, legal and economical rights of it’s members;
3) cooperate with other organizations;
4) organize professional competitions;
5) develop landscape architecture education and to promote self-education courses for it’s members;
6) participate in arrangement of vocational regulation of landscape architecture in Estonia;
7) propose for protection and management of landscape architectural heritage and to preserve documentation about the heritage;
8) mediate the information to it’s members and publish printed matters;
9) recognize outstanding landscape architectural accomplishments and issue scholarships.

The landscape architects are working in the private consulting sector (mainly with spatial and landscape planning, private garden design and historical park restoration issues) as well as in public sector (at municipal governments, educational institutions and ministries).

The main activity during the first one and a half years of the organization has been to establish the organization and it’s membership as well as to introduce the organization and it’s purposes to other architectural professional organizations and public.

The structure of the organization consists of general assembly, the board (up to 15 members), auditing commission and duty of honor.

The ELAU has been organizing the first landscape architectural competition together with Estonian Road Museum and the Estonian Architect Union. The ELAU has also brought into effect the web homepage for the Estonian landscape architects (www.maastikuarhitekt.ee) and organized several summer-meetings for landscape architects of Estonia.