Mikyoung Kim Explained

Mikyoung Kim
Founding Principal of Mikyoung Kim Design
Education:Oberlin College, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Occupation:Landscape Architect, Academic

Mikyoung Kim, FASLA is an American landscape architect, urban designer, and founding principal of Mikyoung Kim Design. Kim has received the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the American Society of Landscape Architects National Design Medal. Her studio was named by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative architecture firms.

Early life and education

Mikyoung Kim was born in Hartford, Connecticut .[1] She initially aimed for a career as a concert pianist until she developed tendinitis in her early 20s.[2]

While at Oberlin College, Kim also studied sculpture. She graduated with a BS in Sculpture/Art History in 1989.[3] She subsequently studied landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating in 1992. At Harvard, she studied concurrently at the GSD and at the MIT VES (Visual and Environmental Studies) department, developing designs, sculpture, installations and videos. While at Harvard, she was the Norman T. Newton Scholar and received the Jacob Weidenmann Prize for Design.

Work

Mikyoung Kim Design

Kim's projects include the ChonGae Canal restoration in Seoul, Korea, TMC Helix Park at the Texas Medical Center Houston, TX, the Crown Sky Garden in Chicago, IL the Chicago Botanic Garden,[4] the Plaza at the Prudential at 888 Boylston in Boston, the John Hancock Tower Roof Garden in Boston, MA, and Pier 4 Seaport Plaza in Boston, MA. The firm is best known for designing healing gardens, including the Crown Sky Garden at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the Boston Children's Hospital Green Urban Design,[5] and the Miami Healing Garden at the Jackson South Community Hospital.[6] The ChonGae Canal in Seoul, South Korea opened in 2005. The Canal includes the conversion of one of the city's polluted waterways into a local amenity that attracts 90,000 pedestrians a day.[7]

Teaching

In 1994 she became a full time faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design [8] and opened her own firm in Boston, MA. She was a professor at Rhode Island School of Design from 1994 to 2012 and was the Department Head at RISD[9] for five years. She has taught a variety of design and sculpture studios and seminars.[10] Since 2012, Kim has held a Professor Emerita position. She has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2017 to 2018 as a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture.[11] In Fall 2018 Kim held the Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.[12]

Recent Awards

2022: American Society of Landscape Architects, Firm Award American Society of Landscape Architects

2019: Mikyoung Kim Design awarded Fast Company Worlds Most Innovative Companies - Architecture

2010: Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, Harvard University for ChonGae Canal in Seoul, South Korea - Architecture[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mikyoung Kim . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220119034320/http://ladprofile.weebly.com/mikyoung-kim.html . 19 January 2022 . 11 October 2022 . Landscape Architect + Designer Profiles.
  2. News: Julie. Lasky. Mikyoung Kim's Healing Gardens. New York Times. 6 February 2013 . 2013-09-25.
  3. Web site: 2014 Fellows Profiles . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221011180820/https://www.asla.org/ContentDetail.aspx?id=43367 . 11 October 2022 . 7 March 2020 . American Society for Landscape Architects.
  4. Web site: 26 September 2022 . Mikyoung Kim’s new Glencoe learning and discovery campus encourages children’s sensory discovery of the natural world—minus the gaudiness of plastic playgrounds or an over prescription of experiences . 11 October 2022 . Global Design News . en-US.
  5. Web site: Mikyoung Kim Design’s green master plan and gardens at Boston Children’s Hospital are designed for healing .
  6. Web site: Most Innovative Companies: Mikyoung Kim Design . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210614032352/https://www.fastcompany.com/company/mikyoung-kim-design . 14 June 2021 . 8 March 2020 . Fast Company . en-US.
  7. News: Revkin. Andrew C.. Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens. 2009-07-16. The New York Times. 2020-03-08. en-US. 0362-4331.
  8. Web site: You Must Engage: an Interview with Mikyoung Kim, FASLA. Hilderbrand. Gary. Landscape Architecture Magazine. Landscape Architecture Magazine. 2019-05-09.
  9. News: Taylor. Lindsey. Landscape Architects Share Their Favorite Things. 4 March 2014. The Wall Street Journal. 2019-05-09.
  10. Web site: 15 March 2011 . Prof. Mikyoung Kim - Designing Imaginative Playgrounds . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234728/http://wamc.org/post/prof-mikyoung-kim-rhode-island-school-design-designing-imaginative-playgrounds#stream/0 . 3 March 2016 . 11 April 2014 . WAMC .
  11. Web site: 6 July 2018 . Mikyoung Kim MLA '92 Receives 2018 ASLA Design Medal . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211016023820/https://alumni.gsd.harvard.edu/alumni_updates/mikyoung-kim-mla-92-receives-2018-asla-design-medal/ . 16 October 2021 . 7 March 2020 . Harvard GSD Grounded Visionaries - Alumni & Friends . en-US.
  12. Web site: 9 August 2018 . Mikyoung Kim is the 2018 Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211203234746/https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2018/08/mikyoung-kim-2018-glimcher-distinguished-visiting-professor . 3 December 2021 . 7 March 2020 . Knowlton School.
  13. Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project. 2011. 10.31353/cs0140. en-US. Robinson. Alexander. Hopton. Myvonwynn. free.