Margaret has always been passionate about mentoring and uplifting BIPOC students within the design field, working with the Center for Architecture Foundation, Spark! and NAMLA. She is interested in work on cross-cultural sites, including an independent research study at the University of Pennsylvania on the Korean DMZ ‘Across Borders: Movement and Migration’, which she’s presented at the World Congress. As a senior project manager, she has worked on large scale urban developments and resiliency projects from coast to coast in the U.S. Margaret believes that landscape design has the power to heal communities which have been historically bisected. Newton Prize and the Jacob Weidenman Prize. While at Harvard, she was an Olmsted Scholar and received the Norman T. Mikyoung was trained as a concert pianist at Oberlin College and Conservatory, studied Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and public art at MIT. She has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a Professor Emerita at the Rhode Island School of Design where she was awarded the college's Dean's Leadership Award. Mikyoung currently serves on the Mayor's appointed Civic Design Commission in Boston. She has served on numerous juries including the Rome Prize jury and the Heinz Awards. Mikyoung's firm has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies in the world.Ī frequent international speaker, she has spoken at Yale University, the Gardner Museum, Stanford University and the National Building Museum in Washington DC. She was named by Architecture Digest as an AD Innovator and is a Fellow with the American Society of Landscape Architects. Mikyoung is a recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the ASLA National Design Medal. Throughout her career, she has crafted an exceptional body of work that has been highlighted in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record, Dwell, Surface, Garden Design, and the Chicago Tribune. From large scale urban and waterfront parks to botanic gardens, her work reflects a deep commitment to memorable place making that captures the public imagination. Mikyoung’s diverse background in design, music and sculpture has shaped her body of humanistic work, blurring the boundaries between the landscape, ecology and architecture. She is known for culturally significant designs that serve as a powerful tool to celebrate the beauty of the collective human experience. Her work is focused on bringing the science and art of resiliency and healthy living into the landscape experience. Mikyoung Kim is the founder and design director of Mikyoung Kim Design.
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