Gabriele G. Kiefer

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Gabriele G. Kiefer (born October 17, 1960 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ) is a German landscape architect and university lecturer.

In 1989 she founded the Kiefer office in Berlin, whose projects cover a wide spectrum in terms of type, character and dimensions. In recent years, in addition to a series of projects for conversion sites, large city parks have been the focus of activity.

She has taught at the École nationale supérieure du paysage in Versailles, the University of Naples Federico II , the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile and the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia. Since 2002 she has been professor for urban planning and landscape architecture at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

From 2008 to 2013 she was a member of the design advisory board of the City of Salzburg, from 2012 to 2015 a member of the selection committee of the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo . The equal opportunities officer of the Kaiserslautern district administration, Elvira Schlosser, is a sister of hers.

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Kiefer took part in her first competition in 1989. Kiefer's work includes the Hans-Baluschek-Park in Berlin , the parks on Friedrichswerder near the Foreign Office, the Blankensteinpark in the Alter Schlachthof development area and the Johannisthal / Adlershof landscape park . Other works by the office were the biosphere hall in the Volkspark Potsdam , the outdoor facilities of the Blindeninstitutsstiftung in Würzburg, the Ferropolis venue in the former Golpa-Nord opencast mine, the Lene-Voigt-Park on the site of the former Eilenburg train station in Leipzig , the Norderstedt state garden show and the state garden show Wolfsburg, the Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main and the Opfikerpark in Glattpark , Switzerland. In collaboration with Martha Schwartz , she won the forecourt, the southern Washingtonplatz and the northern Europaplatz, of Berlin's main train station .

Kiefer has received numerous prizes and awards for her work; 2002 the European Prize for Urban Public Space for Lene Voigt Park . In 2005 a retrospective of her work was published under the title "Rekombinen / Recombinations".

The utopian scenarios for the center of Berlin, developed in collaboration with the offices of David Chipperfield and Graft , provoked controversial discussions in the capital in 2010.

Kiefer's work is characterized by the equal use of mostly geometric shapes and plants. In doing so, she tries to limit herself to a few core elements and a few materials in her work.

literature

  • Thies Schröder, Hans Joosten: Kiefer office - recombinations / recombinations. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-8001-4456-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative Architektur: Werkbericht Gabriele G. Kiefer , accessed January 13, 2013
  2. ↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations-Utopische_Plaene_fuer_Rathausforum_Berlin_891171.html
  3. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5150822/
  4. ^ Rainer Haubrich: Historische Mitte: How urban planners deny the identity of Berlin. In: welt.de . December 21, 2009, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ (mikas): Legible green spaces - the landscape architect Gabriele G. Kiefer creates emancipated open spaces with geometric designs. In: the daily newspaper . December 3, 2005, accessed January 13, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Kiefer, Gabriele G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)