Gabriele Kiefer founded Büro Kiefer, a landscape architecture studio that has worked across Germany and Europe. She was a finalist in Barcelona's 5th Biennal of landscape architecture for a project on the outskirts of Switzerland. Here,  Gabriele discusses her Opfiker Park in Zurich, her major influences, her teaching, former industrial sites, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Craig Verzone

Dispatch 23: Gabriele Kiefer

MAR 21, 202255 MIN
Terragrams

Dispatch 23: Gabriele Kiefer

MAR 21, 202255 MIN

Description

<p><em>This episode was originally broadcast in September 2008.</em></p> <p>Gabriele Kiefer founded <a href="http://www.buero-kiefer.de/profil/pf_haltung_en.html">Büro Kiefer</a>, a landscape architecture studio founded in Berlin in 1989. Ms. Kiefer studied landscape planning at Berlin Technical University before working as a research assistant and, in 2002, being appointed as a Professor. Her studio has made work all over Germany and throughout much of Europe. She was a finalist in Barcelona's 5th Biennal of landscape architecture for a project on the outskirts of Switzerland. She has lectured world-wide and participates regularly as a jury member to competitions.</p> <p>In Dispatch 23, Ms. Kiefer discusses her Opfiker Park in Zurich, her major influences, her teaching, former industrial sites, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.</p> <p>This show employs visual chapters that update the show art to provide illustrations relevant to the ongoing onversation. If your podcast client does not support this, you can view the chapter art and their sources at <a href="https://terragrams.com/episodes/tg23-gabriele-kiefer/"> this episode's webpage</a>.</p>