Birgit Kibelka received her masters degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Hannover, Germany in 1997.
Since then she has worked with firms in Hamburg, Germany, Tampa, FL and Birmingham, AL and acquired experience in a wide range of landscape architecture projects spanning from residential to community to large scale urban design and transportation projects. In 2011 she founded kibelka landcape architecture, LLC.

Upon arriving in Alabama seven years ago, Birgit has embraced the possibilities the wide variety of native and cultivated plants in the Southeastern United States provide. She has become an expert at seeing a property's potential and at carving it out to highlight its natural beauty.

2008 Award of Outstanding Contribution to the Community: Hillsborough County Planning Commission, Public Infrastructure category: I-4 Urban Design Ybor City, with Terra Tectonics Design Group, Inc.

2007 Hillsborough County Planning Commission Award of Excellence in the Urban Design category: Tampa Downtown Interchange, with Terra Tectonics Design Group, Inc.

2006 Florida Native Plant Society Landscape Award, 1st Place: Gulfport Elementary School, with Terra Tectonics Design Group, Inc.