1. Kate Orff was born on 1971 and is an American landscape architect.
23 Facts About Kate Orff
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Kate Orff is the founding principal of SCAPE, a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York.
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Kate Orff is the director the Urban Design Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and co-director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes.
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Kate Orff's work focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to uncertainty of climate change and fostering social life which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects.
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Kate Orff is known for leading complex, creative, and collaborative work processes that advance broad environmental and social prerogatives.
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Kate Orff has designed projects across the United States and internationally.
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Kate Orff is listed on TED talks, the Architectural League NY, Aperture Foundation, and WNYC.
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Kate Orff teaches interdisciplinary seminars and design studios at Columbia University.
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Kate Orff is the director of the Urban Design Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is founder and co-director of the Urban Landscape Lab.
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Kate Orff grew up in a once-gated suburban community in Crofton, Maryland, to which she has been designed for the use of cars and created on the steadfast idea that oil was what kept modern settlements relevant.
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Kate Orff attended the University of Virginia in the undergraduate program of Political and Social Thought, which was founded by Richard Rorty.
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Kate Orff then graduated with Distinction from the Bachelor of Political and Social Thought.
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In 2004, following a period employed by SWA and Hargreaves Associates, Kate Orff moved to New York and started her practice out of her apartment near Union Square.
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Kate Orff started taking on employees in 2007 and thus formally established her firm, SCAPE.
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In 2007 Kate Orff married Oded Horodniceanu son of Michael Horodniceanu the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's president of capital construction.
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In 2018, Kate Orff was a keynote speaker at United States Sen.
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In 2017, Orff was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.
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Kate Orff received the grant for her designs of "adaptive and resilient habitats" and for encouraging stewardship of the ecological systems that underlie the built environment.
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In 2019, Kate Orff was elevated to the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows.
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Also in 2019, Kate Orff was honored as a Waterfront Alliance's Hero of the Harbor.
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In January 2024, Kate Orff received an honorary doctorate from the Delft University of Technology for her contributions in the field.
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Kate Orff has been selected as the 2025 Gold Medal recipient by the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society for Architecture and Allied Arts, in collaboration with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
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In 2012, the Aperture Foundation published Petrochemical America, a book by Kate Orff which won the National ALSA award in the communications category in 2013.