Karen M'Closkey explained

Karen M'Closkey is a landscape architect and Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her artistic and academic focus is the relationship between digital media and landscape architecture design, and M'Closkey is considered one of the leaders in this subfield. 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.[3] Her work focuses on the role of technology in landscape architecture. The relationship between digital media and landscape architecture is still in its early days, but M'Closkey is regarded as one of its most influential voices. She is an advocate of using digital modeling to design for complex systems of understand change over time with more accuracy.[4] She explores these themes in both her academic and professional work. The firm PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture, which she co-founded with Keith VanDerSys, experiments with both digital modeling and new materials.[5] The firm has worked with agencies such as the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.[6] The firm is particularly notable for its use of parametric modeling and scripting, which allows M'Closkey to recognize and responds to pattern in landscape in designs.[7] Modeling also helps the team recognize patterns in climate change and urbanization which are not currently visible to landscape architects.[8] The firm is described as being on the forefront of "digitally-driven" design practices, in contrast with firms that use technology purely to represent their designs.[9]

M'Closkey teaches these concepts in the Landscape Architecture department at PennDesign. She teaches core design studios, option studios, and Contemporary Theories of Landscape Architecture.[2] The advanced option studios explore how repetition, ornamentation, and surface modulation can create new landscape forms.[10] 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.[11]

She is the guest editor (with Keith VanDerSys) of two issues of LA+ on the themes Simulation (2016) and GEO (forthcoming 2020). M’Closkey is co-curator and co-editor of the symposium and book Design with Nature Now (2019).[12] M'Closkey was the recipient of the 2012-2013 Garden Club of America Rome Prize in landscape architecture.

Major publications

Awards

Individual

PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Karen M'Closkey. 2 November 2018.
  2. Web site: Landscape Architecture PennDesign. www.design.upenn.edu. en. 2018-10-01.
  3. Web site: Stories by Karen M'Closkey.
  4. Book: Walliss, Jillian and Heike Rahmann. Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising design and making. Routledge. 2016. New York. xxvi.
  5. Web site: Karen M'Closkey Landscape Architecture Foundation. Design. TOKY Branding +. lafoundation.org. en. 2018-10-01.
  6. News: Karen M'Closkey. admin. 2016-11-30. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. 2018-10-01. en.
  7. Web site: Edaphic Effects | Philadelphia USA | PEG. 30 November 2011.
  8. Book: Walliss, Jillian and Heike Rahmann. Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising design. Routledge. 2016. New York. 69–70.
  9. Walliss. Jillian, Zaneta hong, Heike Rahmann, and Jorg Sieweke. 2014. Pedagogical foundations: deploying digital techniques in design /research practice. Journal of Landscape Architecture. 9. 3. 72–83. 10.1080/18626033.2015.968421. 110801874.
  10. Web site: peg office of landscape + architecture. www.peg-ola.com. 2018-10-01.
  11. Web site: In a More Volatile World, New Models Are Needed. 2 April 2015.
  12. Web site: CityLab - Bloomberg .
  13. Web site: 12 GEO — laplusjournal.
  14. Web site: Design with Nature Now.
  15. Web site: Dynamic Patterns: Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age.
  16. Web site: LA+ SIMULATION – Oro Editions – Publishers of Architecture, Art, and Design.
  17. Web site: Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890–1940.
  18. Web site: Composite Landscapes | Architecture | Hatje Cantz . Hatjecantz.de . 2013-02-09 . 2022-06-08.
  19. Synthetic patterns: Fabricating landscapes in the age of 'green' . 10.1080/18626033.2013.798919. 2013 . m'Closkey . Karen . Journal of Landscape Architecture . 8 . 16–27 . 144500076 .
  20. Book: DIRT. 9780262516921. 6 January 2012. MIT Press.
  21. Web site: Lecture & Event Archive.
  22. Web site: 2014 Jackson Book Prize | Foundation for Landscape Studies.
  23. Web site: Karen M'Closkey | School of Fine Arts Index.
  24. Web site: Fantasy Island: The Galapagos Archipelago | ASLA 2020 Professional Awards.
  25. Web site: The FloMo: A Mobile Messenger for Sea Level Rise | 2019 ASLA Professional Awards.
  26. Web site: Karen M'Closkey. 30 November 2016.
  27. Web site: League Prize 2010: ReSource.
  28. Web site: Grants archive.

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