Karen M'Closkey

Karen M'Closkey is a landscape architect and Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture, a Philadelphia design and research firm.[1]

Education

M'Closkey earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, graduating with distinction in 1994. She went on to earn a Master of Landscape Architecture, with distinction, from Harvard University in 1999.[2]

Career

M'Closkey has been active as a landscape architect for over 10 years. Her work focuses on materiality and how relationships between organic and inorganic materials can heighten experience. PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture, which she co-founded with Keith VanDerSys, experiments with new materials and fabrication technologies to further explore these relationships.[3] The firm has worked with agencies such as the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.[4]

In addition to practice, M'Closkey teaches in the Landscape Architecture department at PennDesign. She teaches core design studios, option studios, and Contemporary Theories of Landscape Architecture.[5] The advanced option studios explore how repetition, ornamentation, and surface modulation can create new landscape forms.[6]

M’Closkey co-organized a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania with VanDerSys. The symposium, called “Simulating Natures,” explored the role of environmental modeling and simulation tools in contemporary landscape architecture. The symposium was accompanied by an issue of LA+ Journal exploring the same themes and questions.[7]

Major publications

  • "Not Garden" in VIA: Dirt (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011)[8]
  • "Synthetic Patterns: Fabricating Landscapes in the Age of ‘Green,'" Journal of Landscape Architecture (Spring 2013)
  • Unearthed: the Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) – received the J.B. Jackson Book Award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies
  • "Structuring Relations: From Montage to Model in Composite Imaging," in Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture (Hatje Cantz, 2015)
  • "Criticality in Landscape Architecture: Origins in 19th-century American Practices" in Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890-1940 (National Gallery Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, 2015)[9]
  • Dynamic Patterns: Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age (Routledge, 2017). Co-Authored with Keith VanDerSys[10]

Awards

Individual

PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture

References

  1. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  2. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  3. ↑ Design, TOKY Branding +. "Karen M'Closkey | Landscape Architecture Foundation". lafoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  4. ↑ admin (2016-11-30). "Karen M'Closkey". The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  5. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  6. ↑ "peg office of landscape + architecture". www.peg-ola.com. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  7. ↑ Design, TOKY Branding +. "Karen M'Closkey | Landscape Architecture Foundation". lafoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  8. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  9. ↑ "peg office of landscape + architecture". www.peg-ola.com. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  10. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  11. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  12. ↑ Design, TOKY Branding +. "Karen M'Closkey | Landscape Architecture Foundation". lafoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  13. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
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