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Keith VanDerSys

Lecturer
Landscape Architecture

Biography

B.Arch., University of Detroit (1994)
M.A., Critical Studies in Architectural Culture, University of California, Los Angeles (2004)

Keith VanDerSys is co-founder of PEG office of landscape + architecture, an award-winning design and research practice based in Philadelphia. Through uses of new media and fabrication technologies, PEG’s work explores methods of systemic patterning to expand landscape’s expressive agency in the shaping of the public realm.

The firm has been published extensively and won numerous design awards, including the 2010 Emerging New York Architects Prize, 2010 Architectural League Prize, and a 2011 Boston Society of Architects Research Grant for work pertaining to geo-cell customization. PEG was the featured practice in Landscape World (September 2010).