mary vĂŠlez u.va mla 2019
mary vĂŠlez marymelissavelez@gmail.com 443. 257. 5968 226 W. South St. Apartment 02 Charlottesville, VA 22902
school University of Virginia Master of Landscape Architecture
University of Virginia Vicenza Drawing Program
Colgate University Cum Laude
work Charlottesville, VA 2016 - Exp. 2019
University of Virginia Summer 2017
Hamilton, NY 2012-2016
Freelance Web Designer
Charlottes January 2019
Current work: Shimp Design Assoc.
Center for Design and Health
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Assistant to the Director
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B.A. Environmental Studies
Harvard University GSD
Cambridge, MA
Career Discovery Program
2015
Sea Education Association Trans-Atlantic Sailing Expedition Student + Crew Member
National Outdoor Leadership School Student
Woods Hole, MA 2015
Strait of Georgia + Vancouver Island, CN 2013
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Intern
Summ
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Extern
Fletcher Studio Extern
Office of Sustainability Intern
Brooklyn, N
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Environmental Thought + Practice Major Administrator
Brooklyn, N
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references
skills
Nyunny Kim, Senior Associate
Leena Cho, Assoc. Professor
Michael Van Valkenburgh Assoc. 718 243 2044 office nkim@mvvainc.com
U.Va School of Architecture 434 924 6448 office lsc7t@virginia.edu
Carpentry, Welding, Casting, Woodworking, CNC Routing, Laster Cutting, Ceramics
ArcGIS, Rhin AutoCAD, S
Professional Time Management, Presentation and Public Speaking, Collaboration, Zoom, GoTo, Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint
Hand Drawing, Wa Charcoal; Adobe In Illustrator, AfterEffe Photoshop; FinalCutP
Julie Bargmann, Professor
U.Va School of Architecture 434 243 2014 office jlb6t@virginia.edu
Zaneta Hong, Assoc. Professor
U.Va School of Architecture 434 691 8983 office zhh7z@virginia.edu
Modeling and Prototyping
Mapping and
Video and Visua
research
sville, VA 9-present
f Virginia
17-current
New York
nter 2018
New York
mer 2018
New York
nter 2018
f Virginia
Indigenous ways of knowing and representing place
TA MLA Foundation Studio IV
University of Virginia
Fall 2018 - ongoing
Brad Cantrell + Andi Hansen
Spring 2019
TA MLA Foundation Studio III
University of Virginia
Beth Meyer + Emma Mendel
Fall 2018
University of Virginia Fall 2018
Profs. Sean Lally + Lucia Phinney
University of Virginia
Prof. Zaneta Hong
2017-2018
University of Virginia
New Delhi monsoons
Fall 2017
Profs. Inaki Alday + Pankaj vir Gupta
Colgate University
Indigenous farmers + commercial banana plantations
017-2018
isco, CA
Enslavement and agriculture Prof. Craig Marin
TA History of Landscape Architecture Jeremy Foster
Human hair
Prof. April Baptiste
uary 2017
University of Virginia
Profs. Brad Cantrell, Jim Igoe + Lecturer Emma Mendel
Plant - people relationships
assistantships TA Lessons of the Lawn Peter Waldman
RA Ghana sewage + stormwater Prof. Nancy Takahashi
Univeristy of Virginia Spring 2018
University of Virginia Fall 2017
University of Virginia Fall 2017
Spring 2016
Sea Education Association Fall 2015
University
015-2016
honors Drafting
noceros, SketchUp
alization
atercolor, nDesign, ects and Pro, VRay
“Two Truths Talking,” Video, March 2019. Selected Entry, An Exhibit of Inclusionary Practice, U.Va Honorable Mention, Madison Lane Visual Arts Prize, U.Va LUNCH Journal vol. 14, Spring 2019 Forthcoming, “A Language for Living Things” Sole author; 3,000 words + drawings University of Virginia, Spring 2019 Appointed Student Representative on MLA Admissions Committee
engagement University of Virginia 2017-18 Student Representative to Faculty MLA Program
Hamilton, NY 2013-16 Community Organizer Students for Divestment
Baltimore, MD 2017 Volunteer Creative Alliance
Madison, NY 2012-14 Volunteer Leader Madison Elementary School Art CLub
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Through the act of design, my work seeks to tune the relationship between humans and the living systems of landscapes.
This body of inquiry perceives sites as connected, landscapes as agential, and the future as an opportunity to develop alternatives. With the belief that curiosity is essential to work, a range of materials, scales, approaches and techniques are unified under an inquiry into radical inclusivity. Each project is met with an intuitive attention to the systems of landscapes, both imposed and emergent. From maintenance routines to sedimentary regimes, from material lifespans to the rhythm of public space, my work explores the role landscape architects have in structuring the relationship between living things.
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bur surf
Spring 2018 Leena Cho + Alex Wall
Spring 2017 Tat Bonvehi-Ros
The Meadowlands is the new American landscape. We call attention to its materials and their impending inundation under sea level rise; a present/future rich with opportunity, not disaster. We invite all lives to revel and take part in the careful deconstruction, redistribution, and reconstruction of the urban fabric within the zones of sea level rise. edges and boundaries soften. A National Park that consumes and generates itself wastes nothing, forging novel intimacies and unruly spaces.
What is the role of does the human b and through time? look like when yo it? An ephemeral way through Ric lands, recalling sp movement of en choreographed professional ma community labor
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f labor in landscapes? How body move through space, ? What does a hidden past ou’re not supposed to see l line of poppies snakes its chmond’s low lying urban paces used in the trade and nslaved peoples. Precisely installations and a mix of aintainence regimes and generate form.
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Fall 2017 Julie Bargmann
Fall 2018 Sean Lally + Lucia Phinney
Rustling, waving, bristling, white noise. sit a while. Let your anxious fingers pluck the flower, caress the wooly leaf. The wind rolls the lilies on their long stems; just watch them, watch the pale leaves reveal their undersides. One step. One more, two more. Blackness takes you in among its own, silver light softly shimmers over shiny surfaces. Close your eyes, tilt your head back, lift your face to the sun. And breathe.
Proposing other ways of knowing plants. Questioning Euro-Western epistemologies through Indigenous ontologies. Why do we relate to plants primarily through a relationship of extraction? What are the effects of this relationship on our world? Modeled on Indigenous relationships between place and people forged over generations, the concept of technointimacy relies upon quotidian tools coupled with real-time environmental sensing, artificially constructing an intimate relationship between plants and people that returns agency to the ground.
techno intimacy
Publication forthcoming, LUNCH vol. 14.
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technical
prof sion
Fall 2018 Emma Mendel Jim Igoe
Various, See section
Summer 2018 Michael Van Val Internship
Why and how do we know what we know? When comparing Euro-Western epistemologies with Indigenous ways of coming into being with the earth, what truths emerge? Using physical models, two versions of truth converse, creating a fusion that degrades and generates simultaneously.
Testing construction and deconstruction through analytical drawings, both digital and analog. Creating understanding of why things are built in certain ways and exploring methods of representation.
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Spring 2018 Beth Meyer
Spring 2018 Emma Mendel
Pinning authors and texts on one another to trace trends through contemporary theories of modern landscape architecture. Diagramming surgically in order to create richer and deeper understanding.
Exploring messy concepts through precise and speculative modeling. How does sediment settle, swish and stick at the fatty edge of land and water? How can we model these processes and leave room for imagination in a tangible object?
p 01 stuff matters The Meadowlands is the new American landscape. We call attention to its materials and their impending inundation under sea level rise; a present/future rich with opportunity, not disaster. Created with Karl-Jon Sparrman and Lynn Zhang, all drawings shown are my own.
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human + non-human lives
material of the urban fabric
deconstructed urban fabric
human and non-human lives
a park whose edges are alive testing + learning recursively formation of human and non-human publics
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OF MATERIAL FLOWS IN THE MEADOWLANDS
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beach feeding artifical island construction insurance costs
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SEA LEVEL RISE
CLIMATE + WEATHER
INTENSE + UNPREDICTABLE STORMS WATER WARS
POPULATION GROWTH
INCREASINGLY CYCLICAL PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND WASTE CREATION INCREASINGLY POOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE RELATIONSHIPS
GLOBAL POLITICS
UNSTABLE GAS PRICES UNSTABLE NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION
GLOBAL ECONOMY
INCREASINGLY LARGE SUPERTANKERS INCREASINGLY LARGE INCOME GAP
LOCAL POLICY
NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE DECONSTRUCTION
international aid emergencies storm debris home loss coastal reconstruction flooding
international + civil war readily available fresh water disproportionate impact on developing nations
waste dumping mixed-stream recycling practices disposable clothing landfilling and incineration
nationalism fake news tariffs + taxes international best practice influences alaskan oil drilling municipal transport systems cheap gas car driving disastrous results risky business practices raw material costs synthetic material innovation resources for future generations dredging waterway expansion wetlands desperation activism spatial divisions
construction debris vehicle traffic wetlands
URBAN + SURBURBAN SPRAWL CHANGES IN WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
construction debris vehicle traffic interaction with the Meadowlands wetlands
landfilling incineration recycling international waste exporting
DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE TRANSPORT DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE TRANSPORT DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE TRANSPORT
town of Little Ferry town of Secaucus industries + warehouses imported sand + sediment tide gates sea walls
town of Little Ferry town of Secaucus warehouses cars trees sediment furniture construction debris ammunition + weaponry water tanks plastic cisterns plastic water bottles
leachate plastics paper glass clothing shoes food waste
CONSTRUCT TRANSPORT
industrial waste chemical by-products smog, smoke, soot, dust machine parts dirty water
EXCAVATE TRANSPORT
tar sands fracking water dredge spoils contaminated oil booms, wattles + fascimes
DEMOLISH EXCAVATE TRANSPORT
off-gases machine parts industrial waste chemical by-products
DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT DEPOSIT RINSE
off-gases machine parts industrial waste chemical by-products
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DEMOLISH RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE
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industrial waste chemical by-products smog, smoke, soot, dust machine parts construction debris dirty water construction tarping + fencing asphalt + cement debris sewage food waste
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incinerator ash dredge spoils shipping containers + pallets recycling chemicals
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Projecting a future for the closed NJMC E-1 landfill.
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Envisioning Teterboro airport as a landscape of flooded productivity.
p 07 buried surfaced Using poppies to recall purposely hidden histories in Richmond. memories are tied to yearly blooms as a range of installation and maintainence regimes generate form and relationships. Created with Maddie Hoagland-Hanson; all drawings shown are my own.
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Occupation, care, and attention to a shared edge of poppies.
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What are the operations of perforating roads with plants?
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p 11 garden for losing + finding Exploring planted form and function through a chosen narrative of a path leading to a cemetery through three increasingly introspective garden experiences. Instructor: Julie Bargmann Course: Planted Form and Function II 2018
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Collaging bouquet to lay on graves; testing plant textures.
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p 15 techno intimacy Represented through animation, reciprocity between plants and people is developed through the use of technologies that mimic Indigenous ways of understanding the earth. How can we change the way we understand, live with, and care for plants? Instructor: Sean Lally + Lucia Phinney Course: 3rd Year Research Studio 2018
Link to animation
A wooded parkland in typical Euro-Western maintenance regime.
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A wooded parkland in technointimate care.
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Quotidian gardening tools meshed with finely tuned sensors that relay real-time data to users.
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User-driven app receives real-time data generated in field and produces predictive maintenance models
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p 21 two truths talking Animating oral histories and ontologies; degrading what seems concrete by telling two versions of truth based on Coast Salish and Euro-Western ontologies. Course: EcoTech III, Emma Mendel Course: Indigenous Landscapes, Jim Igoe 2018
Link to animation
Sturdy models of concrete and glyercin are cast with paper; the fragility and durability of materials is tested under the pressure of fire.
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Animation stills depicting two truths conversing .
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Analytical deconstruction of passive climate technology in Jade Eco Park, designed by Philippe Rahm + Catherine Mosbach
clay pavilion environment, environment clayde-humidifies pavilion de-humidifies absorbing by ambient moisture absorbing ambient moisture
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Instructor: Andrea Hansen-Phillips Course: EcoTech III
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Drawing the ground from soft to hard: deciding bases, subgrades and testing bearing loads of different material combinations Instructor: Teresa Gali-Izard Course: EcoTech I 2016
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p 35 theory poems Pinning authors and texts on one another to trace trends through contemporary theory of modern landscape architecture. Diagramming surgically to develop layered and richer context. Instructor: Beth Meyer Course: Contemporary Theory of Modern Landscape Architecture Spring 2018
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what things can catch other things? what material properties influence slipping or settling?
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how do different types of small sediments mix with each other? how does a liquid carry them + distribute them?
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mary vĂŠlez uva mla 2019 marymelissavelez [at] gmail.com 443. 257. 5968