LECTURE / Mikyoung KIM
Mikyoung Kim Design
The Rose Family Lecture
Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, Founding Principal of Mikyoung Kim Design (MYK-D), is internationally recognized for her studio’s culturally significant projects that celebrate the beauty of collective human experience through landscape and urban design. The studio has been honored as the American Society of Landscape Architect’s Firm of the Year, and Mikyoung has received the ASLA’s National Design Medal and The Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. MYK-D has also been named as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and as an AD Innovator by Architectural Digest. The studio has received over fifty design awards, including numerous ASLA and AIA National Honor Awards for Design.
Mikyoung’s work incorporates resiliency and healthy living as integral components of the studio’s projects. She studied Landscape Architecture at the Harvard GSD, where she was an Olmsted Scholar and received the Norman T. Newton Prize and the Jacob Weidenman Prize. A frequent international speaker, she has lectured at Harvard, RISD, Yale and Stanford, and served on prestigious juries including the Rome Prize. MYK-D strives to make cities healthier and more inclusive. From large-scale urban waterfronts to public gardens and healthcare centers, their designs capture the publics’ imagination. Projects across the US, East Asia and the Middle East include the Seoul Cheonggye River Restoration, Science Hill Wellesley Campus, and Ford’s Michigan Central Park. Recent built work includes Chicago’s Crown Sky Garden and the Regenstein Nature Learning Center. The firm has been widely published, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record, Surface and Dwell.
Mikyoung Kim Design
