An internationally renowned, sculptor, artist, and interdisciplinary planner, with 30 years of experience, Herbert is founder of Atelier Dreiseitl.

Inspired by water, Herbert seeks to awaken a new understanding of sustainability, using public art intrinsically within overall landscape planning solutions, bringing universal themes of ecology and well-being to light. He has realized ground-breaking contemporary designs in the fields of urban hydrology, water design, stormwater management, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

He is active in lecturing worldwide and his work is widely published. Author of several books, s.a. Recent Waterscapes – Planning, Building and Designing with Water.

Herbert DreiseitlFounder, Partner, Artist, Landscape Architect

Selected Projects

· Central Watershed Master Plan, Singapore

· Bishan Park, Singapore

· National Garden Show 2011, Koblenz, Germany

· Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany

· Four Mile Run, Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia

· Tanner Springs Park, Portland, Oregon

· Chicago City Hall Greenroof, Chicago, Illinois

· Queens Botanical Garden Redesign, Queens, New York

· EXPO 2000 Water Traces, Hannoversch Munden, Germany

· Scharnhauser Park, Ostfildern, Germany

· Fornebu Airport, Oslo, Norway

· Solar City, Linz, Austria

· Prisma - Gostenhof, Nuremberg, Germany

· Water Playground, Pforzheim, Germany

Education: Loeb Fellow 2011Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

University of DesignUlm, Germany

Alanus University for Art and SocietyBonn, Germany

Artist Apprenticeship: Greece, Norway, England

Professional Experience:

Founder of ATELIER DREISEITL1980 - Present

Professional Affiliations:

Registered Landscape Architect German Chamber of Architects, Nordrhein-Westfalen, #L41560

Visiting Professor:

Graduate School of Design, Harvard

University of Hannover, Germany

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Selected Lectures:

· Ecological Urbanism Conference, Harvard University, USA, April 2009

· Regional Partnership Workshop, Unesco Conference Unesco, Jakarta, Indonesien, 08./10.12.2009

· Sustainable urban drainage systems in Copenhagen and other Danish cities Skov & Landskab Kobenhavns Universitet

Copenhagen, Denmark, 18.11.2009

· 2008 International Urban Parks Conference -Body and Soul: Parks + the Health of Great Cities, Pittsburgh, USA, Sept. 2008

· Singapore Garden Festival Expo 2008

· Use of Water, Art and Aesthetic Landscaping 45th IFLA World Congress, Apeldoorn, Netherlands July 2008

· 9th International Conference »Digital Design in Landscape Architecture 2008« Univ. of Anhalt, Campus Dessau May 2008

Selected Publications:

· Recent Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009

· Waterscapes, Biochitettura, April, 8-15, 2009· New Waterscapes for Singapore, Topos, 59, 2007· New Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water. Basel:

Birkhäuser, 2005· Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water. Basel:

Birkhäuser, 2001

Awards:

· 2011 BCA Greenmark “Platinum ‘Award for New Parks JTC CleanTech Park Project, Singapore· 2011 Urban Edge Award 2011 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, USA· 2008 LEED Platinum Award for Queens Botanical Gardens, USGBC, NY, NY, USA· 2003 German Real Estate Award Siedlung Arkadien Asperg, Stuttgart, Germany· 2003 Design Award, City of Gummersbach, Gummersbach· 2001 Earth Society Foundation “Environmental Award”, SolarCity · 1999 Chicago City Hall, ASLA, Illinois Chapter

Competitions: · 2011 Mailänderplatz, Stuttgart, 1st Place· 2009 Litang Cultural Center, Tianjin, China 1st Place· 2007 Seattle Civic Square, 1st Place· 1997 Solar City, Linz, Austria (Competition 1st Place), 1997