Rainer Schmidt (born 1954) is a German landscape architect, urban designer, and professor of landscape architecture at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Rainer operates out of three German offices located in Munich, Berlin, and Bernburg. His international work specializes in large scale projects in landscape architecture, environmental planning and urban design. To date, his projects are found in places such as in Germany, Austria, China, Algeria and the Middle East. Life and career Schmidt was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and had practiced in gardening and landscaping from 1972 to 1975. This inspired him to pursue an education in landscape architecture from 1975 to 1980 at the Hochschule Weihenstephan in Freising, Germany. After graduating in 1980, Schmidt began his career as a landscape architect in the office of Gottfried Hansjakob where he progressed towards Senior Landscape Architect and line manager. Since 1986, he has been registered as a Landscape Architect by the Bavarian Chamber of Architects. In 1991, Schmidt started his own office "Rainer Schmidt Landscape Architects and Urban Planners" and followed the call for professorship in "Landscape Architecture" at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. Schmidt has also taught under Guest Professorship at the University of California Berkeley, USA, in 2007 and the University of Beijing, China, in 2004. Since 2005, Schmidt is a member of the advisory board of the German Society of Garden Architecture and Landscape Culture, Berlin, Germany (DGGL). Since 2008, Schmidt has been registered by the Bavarian Chamber of Architects as an urban planner. Company profile Philosophy According to his philosophy of ‘working from place’, landscape architecture in the 21st century is supposed to reflect the relationship between humans and nature. Schmidt conceptualizes each project holistically. From idea to concept to implementation ..., he considers process and product and communicates this with his employees. The outcome is about making a project, an area, a place ‘radiate’. In order to achieve this quality, a situation is to be structurally understood and structurally transformed during the working process. According to this systematic approach, landscape architecture and design are worked on as concepts and not as decoration. The necessary syntheses of ecology and of “healthy living conditions” – for the human and for nature – are integrated parts of these spatial concept-findings, considered as the basis for intervening into ‘nature by culture’. Concept-finding The concepts are structures for building space three-dimensionally, texturally and materially. They