Mikyoung Kim

Mikyoung Kim, FASLA is a landscape architect, urban designer, and founding principal of Mikyoung Kim Design and Professor Emerita at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2014, she was elevated to the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows.[1]

Mikyoung Kim
EducationOberlin College, Harvard Graduate School of Design
OccupationLandscape Architect, Academic
TitleFounding Principal of Mikyoung Kim Designs

Early life and education

Mikyoung Kim was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Korean parents. From the age of 6, Kim was a serious pianist and continued her passion for performing into her early twenties at Oberlin Conservatory.[2]

While at Oberlin College, Kim also studied sculpture. She graduated with a BS in Sculpture/Art History in 1989.[3] She subsequently studied landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating in 1992. At Harvard, she studied concurrently at the GSD and at the MIT VES (Visual and Environmental Studies) department, developing designs, sculpture, installations and videos. While at Harvard, she was the Norman T. Newton Scholar and received the Jacob Weidenmann Prize for Design.

Career

Mikyoung Kim Design

From 1992- 1994, Kim worked as Hargreaves Associates before starting her own firm. Her firm's projects include the ChonGae Canal restoration in Seoul, Korea the Crown Sky Garden in Chicago, IL the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Plaza at the Prudential at 888 Boylston in Boston, the John Hancock Tower Roof Garden in Boston, MA, and Pier 4 Seaport Plaza in Boston, MA. The firm is best known for designing healing gardens, including the Crown Sky Garden at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the Boston Children's Hospital Longwood Entrance, and the Miami Healing Garden at the Jackson South Community Hospital.[4] The ChonGae Canal in Seoul, South Korea opened in 2005. The Canal includes the conversion of one of the city's polluted waterways into a local amenity that attracts 90,000 pedestrians a day.[5]

She is the recipient of the Smithsonian Museum Cooper Hewitt Design Award, the American Society of Landscape Architects Design Medal and her firm was named in 2019 by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative businesses. Her work is featured in the Smithsonian Museum American Voices Collection.

In 2019 she was appointed by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Commissioner of the Boston Civic Design Commission.[6]

Academia

In 1994 she became a full time faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design [7] and opened her own firm in Boston, MA. She was a Professor at Rhode Island School of Design from 1994 to 2012 and was the Department Head at RISD[8][7] for five years. She has taught a variety of design and sculpture studios and seminars.[9] Since 2012, Kim has held a Professor Emerita position. She has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2017 to 2018 as a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture.[10] In Fall 2018 Kim held the Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.[11]

Recent Awards

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum National Design Award for Landscape Architecture

American Society of Landscape Architects Design Medal

2019: Mikyoung Kim Design awarded Fast Company Worlds Most Innovative Companies - Architecture[12]

AD Innovator by Architectural Digest

2017: ASLA National Honor Award, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, USA

2010: Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, Harvard University for ChonGae Canal in Seoul, South Korea - Architecture[13]

References
  1. "2014 Fellows Profiles | asla.org". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  2. Julie, Lasky. "Mikyoung Kim's Healing Gardens". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  3. "2014 Fellows Profiles | asla.org". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  4. "Mikyoung Kim Design: Most Innovative Company". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  5. Revkin, Andrew C. (2009-07-16). "Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  6. "Boston Civic Design Commission". Boston Plans. 2020.
  7. Hilderbrand, Gary. "You Must Engage: an Interview with Mikyoung Kim, FASLA". Landscape Architecture Magazine. Landscape Architecture Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  8. Taylor, Lindsey (4 March 2014). "Landscape Architects Share Their Favorite Things". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  9. "Prof. Mikyoung Kim - Designing Imaginative Playgrounds". NPR. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  10. "Mikyoung Kim MLA '92 Receives 2018 ASLA Design Medal | Harvard GSD Grounded Visionaries". groundedvisionaries.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  11. "Mikyoung Kim is the 2018 Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor | Knowlton School". knowlton.osu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  12. "Mikyoung Kim Design: Most Innovative Company". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  13. Robinson, Alexander; Hopton, Myvonwynn (2011). "Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project". doi:10.31353/cs0140. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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