Andreas Kipar


Andreas Kipar is a German landscape architect, architect, urban planner and lecturer in landscape architecture based in Milan.
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Biography

Following a gardener's apprenticeship from 1980 to 1984, Kipar obtained a degree in landscape architecture at the University of GHS Essen. From 1989 to 1994, he studied architecture and urban planning at the Milan Polytechnic.
In 1990, he founded the international landscape architecture, planning, and consultancy office LAND in Milan, together with the agronomist Giovanni Sala. Under Kipar’s direction, LAND manages worldwide projects from Italy with branches in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Canada.
Furthermore, Kipar is co-founder and president of Green City Italia, a non-profit association for the promotion of values connected to urban greenery.
From 1998 to 2009 Kipar taught landscape architecture at the University of Genoa. Since 2009, he has been teaching Public Space Design at the Milan Polytechnic. Guest lectures have taken him to universities and colleges and international conferences in several European countries.
Kipar has also been working as a consultant in various expert groups and scientific committees since 1985. In 2021 he joined the Italian association for natural resources and renewable energies Assorisorse as a general counsellor. Since 2023 he is a consulting associate for the Edison SpA initiative “Rigeneriamo il Territorio". In November 2023 he was appointed by the World Economic Forum as a member of the global Expert Taskforce for Nature-Positive Cities.
Kipar is married to an Italian.

Awards (selection)

In addition, in 2007 Kipar was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Projects (selection)

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Publications (short list)

Andreas Kipar has written numerous articles for German, Italian and English magazines, newspapers, and books. Among them:
  • Emscher Park, Ruhr basin. A project of environmental restructuring for the international expo, Il Pomerio, Lodi 1993;
  • Il giardino paesaggistico tra 700 e 800 in Italia e in Germania, Guerini e Associati, Milan 1996;
  • Architetture del Paesaggio - Ideas and competitions - L’Architettura del Paesaggio attraverso un racconto di concorsi, idee e progetti, Il Verde Editoriale, Milan 2003;
  • Das Himmelskreuz im Luthergarten Wittenberg, Engelage & Lieder, 2018, ;
  • Aufbruch in eine neue Zeit. Die produktiven Landschaften und ihre Rolle in der Spätmoderne, in: Vigoni Papers no. 4/2022, curated by C. Liermann Traniello, M. Scotto, F. Zilio, Villa Vigoni Editore, 2022.
Between 2022 and 2024, Andreas Kipar has published three editions of his company’s internal magazine LAND Magazine in collaboration with Andrea Küpfer and Henning Klüver. The magazines include articles and interviews by experts reflecting on nature, cities, and future ways of living. They can be found on the website of .
Also published about him by Alessandra Coppa and Giuseppe Marioni: Andreas Kipar Una monografia, Milan 2015.

Individual mentions

1. . Portal Landscape Architecture today. Downloaded on 3 November 2018
2. /You have to get out post blog Cluverius 8. July 2018. Downloaded on 5. November 2018
3. Milan Polytechnic. Downloaded 3 November 2018
4. Henning Klüver: /The Forward Thinker In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 3 July 2018. Downloaded 3 November 2018
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6. Regione Sardegna,, Determinazione 2820 / DG. Downloaded on 2 November 2018
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9. Scientific book publisher since 2011. Downloaded on 3. November 2018