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.
18 Facts About Kate Orff
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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 was listed first by Elle Magazine in 2011 as one of nine women involved as "fixers" for mankind.
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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, Kate Orff moved to New York and started her practice out of her studio 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 2017, Orff was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.
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In 2018, Kate Orff was a keynote speaker at United States Sen.
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Also in 2019, Kate Orff was honored as Waterfront Alliance's Heros of the Harbor.
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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.
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In 2014, Kate Orff was recognized for her work designing the 103rd Street Community Garden, a winning site of Built by Women New York City, a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014 to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women.