2011 Urban Edge Award Goes to Germa

2011 Urban Edge Award Goes to German Water Artist Herbert Dreiseitl
Originally trained as a sculptor, Dreiseitl has created a name for himself by designing interactive water sculptures for children. His firm, Atelier Dreiseitl, now has a 30-year track record of innovative, ecologically revelatory work with water in the built environment, from public sculpture and fountains to public plaza and landscape designs incorporating water, to urban and regional plans for storm water management.

All of this work is informed by an elemental reverence for water as a basis for life, and the deep cultural and experiential bonds that water evokes. Atelier Dreiseitl now has offices in Shanghai and Beijing, China; Portland, Ore.; and Überlingen, Germany.