Toward an Urban Ecology: SCAPE/Landscape Architecture

Atlanta City Studio will be hosting Kate Orff as part of the ACS Book Club: A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustainable, and community-oriented spaces . 

July 27, 2026 from 6:30-8:00 pm 

https://www.atlcitystudio.org/book-club-2026

Kate Orff’s activist and visionary work on design for climate dynamics has been shared and developed in collaboration with arts institutions, governments, communities, and scholars worldwide. Since founding the New York-based landscape architecture and urban design firm SCAPE, Kate has advanced projects of all scales, including: award-winning, harbor-wide planning efforts in New York; the innovative oyster project Living Breakwaters; and pilot ecological investigations in Gowanus Bay.

She is also a Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the Urban Design program. Kate was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017, as the first landscape architect in the Foundation’s history to be honored with the award. Kate’s work bridges design, science, and community participation to redefine the role of the landscape architect in the age of climate change. She is coauthor, with Richard Misrach, of Petrochemical America (2012) and coeditor and author of the book Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park (2011). She lives in Forest Hills, New York.