Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the Founder of SCAPE. She focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects.

Kate Orff (born 1971) is an American landscape architect. She is the founding principal of SCAPE, a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York.

Professor Kate Orff joins experts from anthropology, political science, and engineering to consider past, present, and future drivers of climate migration at DxD event hosted by Columbia Climate School.

In 2017, Founding Principal Kate Orff became the first landscape architect to receive the prestigious ‘Genius’ Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2019, she was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows.

Kate Orff’s activist and visionary work on design for climate dynamics has been shared and developed in collaboration with arts institutions, governments, and scholars worldwide. She is a Professor at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the Urban Design Program, where she coordinates complex interdisciplinary studios centered on urban systems of ...

Kate Orff is the Faculty Director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, an Associate Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Director of the Urban Design (MSAUD) Program.

2024年3月27日 · Landscape architect and founding principal of SCAPE, Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, has been named the 2024 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

2024年4月12日 · Landscape architect and founding principal of SCAPE, Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, has been named the 2024 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Orff will give a public talk to mark the occasion on April …

2025年1月8日 · Landscape architect Kate Orff founded her firm, SCAPE, in 2004. 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.

Kate Orff is a landscape architect focused on nature-based infrastructure and urban resilience. She is an Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the Urban Design Program. She is also the Faculty Director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.