Dieter Kienast

Dieter Kienast (born 30 October 1945) was a Swiss landscape architect and professor.

Kienast practiced with Albert Zulauf in Baden (1966–1967) and with Fred Eicher in Zürich (1969–1970).

After beginning his studies in landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan, he studied at the Gesamthochschule Kassel between 1971 and 1975 under Günther Grzimek, Peter Latz, Lucius Burckhardt and Karl Heinrich Hülbusch, among others.

In 1978, he completed his doctorate with a phytosociological thesis on ruderal vegetation in cities under Karl Heinrich Hülbusch and became co-owner of the planning office Stöckli Kienast & Koeppel Landschaftsarchitekten in Zürich and Wettingen.

Kienast taught at the Interkantonales Technikum Rapperswil (1980–1991), the ETH Zurich (1985–1997, 1997–1998) and the University of Karlsruhe (1992–1997).