Gabriele Kiefer founded Büro Kiefer a landscape architecture studio in Berlin in 1989. Ms. Kiefer studied landscape planning at Berlin Technical University after which she worked as a research assistant and then in 2002, was appointed 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. In dispatch 23, Ms. Kiefer discusses her Zurich project Opfiker Park, major influences, teaching, former industrial sites and the fall of the Berlin Wall. September 28, 2008