Dieter Kienast

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Dieter Kienast (born October 30, 1945 in Zurich ; † December 23, 1998 there ) was a Swiss landscape architect who had a decisive influence on international landscape architecture .

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Life

Kienast completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Zurich from 1962 to 1965 and studied landscape planning at the Kassel University from 1970 to 1975 . In 1978 he received his doctorate with a plant sociological topic on ruderal vegetation in cities. After that, Kienast was increasingly active as a creative landscape architect and became co-owner of the Stöckli Kienast & Koeppel landscape architects in Zurich and Wettingen . In 1995, together with Günther Vogt , he founded the office of Kienast Vogt Partner Landscape Architects in Zurich and Bern .

In 1998, the well-known landscape architect Dieter Kienast died of cancer in his hometown .

Teaching

From 1980 to 1991 he taught as a professor of garden architecture at the Intercantonal Technical Center in Rapperswil and from 1981 to 1985 he was technical director of the Botanical Garden in Brüglingen near Basel. From 1985 to 1997 he was a lecturer in landscape design at the ETH Zurich . From 1992 to 1997 Kienast was a professor at the Institute for Landscape and Garden at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). In 1997 he was appointed to the ETH Zurich, where he took over the newly created professorship for landscape architecture , which he held until his death.

Appreciation

Not least because of his collaboration with the leading Swiss architects of his time ( Diener & Diener ; Herzog & de Meuron ; Gigon Guyer ; Meili, Peter ; Helmut Federle ; Karljosef Schattner , German architect), Kienast was one of the most renowned landscape architects in Europe of the 1990s and achieved with numerous parks and gardens of architectural character as well as through its lively publication activity, international reputation. The most important sources of inspiration for him were not only the abstract works of art of minimalism , especially those by Donald Judd , Carl Andre , Sol LeWitt and Richard Long , but also the American Land Art and Swiss landscape architecture by Ernst Cramer and Fred Eicher . The skillful combination of architectural and landscape elements, aesthetic and ecological concepts shapes the special expressiveness of Kienast's gardens, parks and squares.

Kienast's projects for the Expo 2000 in Hanover , the Masoalahalle in the Zurich Zoo , the International Garden Show in Graz 2000 and the Tate Modern Gallery in London are among the most internationally known works of landscape architecture.

Landscape architecture

Austrian sculpture park
Federal Labor Court
Swiss Embassy, ​​Berlin
Austrian sculpture park

Quotes

  • "The garden is the last luxury of our days, because it demands what has become most precious in our society: time, attention and space."
  • “Theory is part of the intellectual part of our work. If it's only about baking beautiful molds, then of course I don't need any theory "
  • “Our work is the search for a nature in the city whose color is not only green, but also gray. The nature of the city means trees, hedges, lawns, but also pavement that is permeable to water, wide open spaces, strict canals, high walls, open fresh air or visual axes, the center and the edge.

Filmography

  • 2011: Wettingen Park, Dieter Kienast
  • 2019: Dieter Kienast

literature

  • Dieter Kienast: The spontaneous vegetation of the city of Kassel. (Dissertation) Urbs et Regio, Kassel 1978, ISBN 3-88122-037-2 .
  • Dieter Kienast: Kienast Gardens Gardens. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 1997, ISBN 3-7643-5609-X .
  • Udo Weilacher : The cultivation of fractures: Dieter Kienast. Interview. In: Udo Weilacher: Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Basel / Berlin / Boston 1999, ISBN 3-7643-6120-4 .
  • Dieter Kienast. Praise of sensuality. gta Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 978-3-85676-093-9 .
  • Dieter Kienast. In Praise of Sensuousness. gta Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 978-3-85676-094-6 .
  • Professorship for landscape architecture ETH Zurich (ed.): Dieter Kienast - The poetics of the garden. About chaos and order in landscape architecture . Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6578-1 .
  • Udo Weilacher: Gardens against people? Dieter Kienast's search for the balance between aesthetics and ecology. In: Ulrich Eisel, Stefan Körner (Hrsg.): Landscape in a culture of sustainability. Volume 2 . Kassel 2007, ISBN 3-89117-166-8 , pp. 136-145.
  • Udo Weilacher: The Garden as the Last Luxury Today. Thought-Provoking Garden Projects by Dieter Kienast (1945-1998). In: Michel Conan (Ed.): Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations. Washington DC 2007, ISBN 978-0-884-02325-8 , pp. 81-95.
  • Udo Weilacher: Kienast, Dieter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2007
  • Anette Freytag: Dieter Kienast. Make city and landscape legible. Zurich 2015, gta Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85676-312-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank (ARCH) Metzger: KIT - Architecture - Faculty - About Us - History. July 24, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Dieter Kienast Archives. Retrieved on August 16, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b Udo Weilacher: Theses on landscape architecture. In: Garden + Landscape. August 28, 2015, accessed on August 16, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Wettingen Park, Dieter Kienast. In: YouTube. August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Dieter Kienast. In: YouTube. Landschaftsarchitektur Rapperswil, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kienast, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kienast, Dieter Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1998
Place of death Zurich