Rainer Schmidt landscape architects + urban planners have been designing and implementing projects on different scales for more than 20 years in Germany and abroad, specializing in the regions of North Africa, Middle East and Asia. The firm employs is a staff of approximately 30 and has three of-fices in Germany: the head office is in Munich; one branch office is in Berlin and the other in Bernburg. The office is specialized in the planning and implementing of largescale projects in landscape architecture, environmental planning and urban design. The office’s aim is to find suitable approaches to solve the problems of our time. The language of landscape architecture in the 21st century must offer a realistic reflection of the way people interact with each other and with nature. The office is striving to achieve a balance between design, function, emotion and conservation.