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October 30, 2025
Amidst a striking change in the relationship between society and nature in the 1970s, Kienast sought a synthesis between design and ecology. As a designer, planner, researcher, and university lecturer, Kienast introduced new facets to those fields. Critiques of urban planning, processes of participation, and the significance of spontaneous urban vegetation played just as prominent a role in these discussions as did art, literature, architecture, and the popularity of postmodernism.
Dr. Anette Freytag, who has written a critical monography on Dieter Kienast explains on the Landscape Architecture Platform Landezine, why his work is so important and influential to this day. To honor Kienast, his Ten Theses on Landscape Architecture have been translated into English and put online.
