Kate Orff Biography

Kate Orff is the founder and design director of SCAPE, a firm focussing on landscape architecture, broadly construed. She has designed projects across the United States and internationally. She lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad on the topic of urban landscape and new paradigms of thinking, collaborating and designing for the anthropocene era. Kate also teaches interdisciplinary seminars and design studios at Columbia University. In 2017, Orff was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.