Kate Orff

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Kate Orff is the founder and design director of SCAPE. She has designed landscapes for prominent institutions and private clients that have been published nationally and internationally. With a background in environmental science, the political and social sciences, and fine arts, she merges ecology and strong form to create rich, bio-diverse, textured landscapes that magnify the relationship between people and place. She lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad on the topic of urban landscape and new paradigms of thinking, collaborating and designing for the anthropocene era. Kate also teaches interdisciplinary seminars and design studios at Columbia University. .[1]

Orff was educated at the University of Virginia and Harvard University.[2] She was listed first by Elle magazine in 2011 as one of nine women involved as "fixers" for mankind.[3]

She was founder and is co-director of the Urban Landscape Lab at Columbia University, where she is an assistant professor. According to the Urban Landscape Lab biographical information her office, SCAPE, has won local and national design awards. She was named a Dwell Magazine ‘Design Leader’ and H&G’s 50 For the Future of Design and received a 2008 National ASLA award (Communications category).[2]

In 2012 Orff was named a United States Artists Fellow.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Speakers - Kate Orff: Landscape architect, Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 About the Urban Landcape Lab: Directors, Urban Landscape Lab (Columbia University).
  3. ↑ Nojan Aminosharei, Allison Davis, Corrie Pikul, and Julie Vadnal (June 22, 2011). "The Fixers: 9 for All Mankind". Elle magazine. Retrieved 2011-12-11. 
  4. ↑ United States Artists Official Website


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