Ruth Penberthy

During her time studying Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, Ruth has approached her work with an interdisciplinary mindset and always with a systems thinking approach. With a focus in climate science and urban resilience, Ruth is fascinated by the methods landscape architects design three dimensional space over various timescales. In her six studios, she explored questions relating to themes around the intersection of the built environment and future ecologies. Project topics included memorializing carbon use and impacts through interactive sculpture gardens, creating abstraction through dynamic ecological conditions, connecting people through historical corridors of infrastructure, exploring how energy systems meet the public realm, redesigning public infrastructure and coastlines for flood protection, and analyzing the most vulnerable coastal ecosystems and their projected loss due to sea level rise. She believes in an iterative design approach and enjoys combining technical, figurative, imaginative, and abstract techniques to produce a novel concept. Ruth will begin working as a landscape architect this upcoming fall and she is continuing her education by pursuing a Master of Science in Civil Engineering with a focus in ocean and coastal engineering.