Kate Orff: Mending the Landscape

The Department of Landscape Architecture welcomes Kate Orff as part of its Landscape Now lecture series. Orff will give a talk about the SCAPE practice and the broad front, transformative landscape initiatives she advances through teaching, practice and advocacy. 

Kate Orff, FASLA, RLA, is the Founding Principal of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design studio with offices in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. She is also a Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), where she directs the Urban Design program and co-directs the Center for Resilient Landscapes (CRCL). She is the author of several books including Toward an Urban Ecology (Monacelli, 2016) and co-author, with photographer Richard Misrach, of Petrochemical America (Aperture, 2012). In 2017, she became the first landscape architect to receive the MacArthur Foundation's 'Genius' Fellowship.

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