KATHERINE JENKINS • 118 W Court Street Apt. 3 Ithaca, NY 14850 • 203.535.3881 • katherine.a.jenkins@gmail.com • www.topo-logic.com
CURRENT
JAN 2015 - PRESENT
Visiting Lecturer | Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Topo-Logic, LLC | Cofounder and principal_San Francisco, CA / Ithaca, NY.
+ Design and branding for pilot-phase of the Trans-Alaska Trail (TAT) with Rep. Jonathan Kreiss Tomkins (AK-34th).
EDUCATION
AUG 2010 - MAY 2013
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Master of Landscape Architecture
SEP 2004 - MAY 2008
RELE
VANT
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Anthropology, Cum Laude
WORK
SEPT 2013 - JAN 2015
SUMMER 2012
SPRING 2010
SWA Group | Designer_San Francisco, CA
SWA Group | Summer intern_San Francisco, CA
+ San Francisco eco-district project research and development
Yellowstone National Park | Comprehensive Planning and Design Office_Mammoth Hot Springs, WY
+ Sound mapping, research, and graphics for the planning of Old Faithful and Mammoth visitor areas
FALL 2009
Yellowstone National Park | “Rechoreographing Old Faithful” Architectural Charrette with OLIN_Old Faithful, WY
FALL 2007
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Intern_Exhibition Design Department_New York, NY
TEACHING
FALL 2015
Cornell University | “Terra Interra: Monuments of Waste.” Introductory graduate studio.
This studio introduces students to the methodologies of investigating and altering space, terrain, aesthetics,
materials, and ecological systems. Students study the landscape as a constructed and metabolically active entity that
is volumetrically massive with broad socio-economic and cultural extensions. The site grounding this introduction
is the monumental Seneca Meadows Landfill in upstate New York: a complex ecology of accretion, decomposition,
inputs and outputs. The studio examines the landfill as a cultural object, a monument, and a burial ground. Students
must recompose the site’s topographic form from existing fill and generate a new conceptual frame through which to
regard this novel terrain.
FALL 2015
Cornell University | “Landscape and the Visual Field.” Introductory graduate graphics + representation course.
This introduction to representation fosters exploratory analysis, invention, and design conceptualization through
making. Students develop proficiency in a variety of representation techniques including digital and analog drawing,
diagramming, and physical modeling with a focus on iteration and mark making.
SPRING 2015
Cornell University | “Mega-Infrastructure on Unstable Ground.” Advanced undergraduate studio.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) has created a means of entry into hundreds of miles of remote and
previously inaccessible land. This studio explores the unrealized potential presented by this extensive access.
Students are asked to respond to the cultural, ecological, and aesthetic transformations of Alaska’s land instigated
by the construction of the TAPS and to consider how the TAPS corridor might be repurposed to address the negative
environmental consequences of oil and gas extraction and transportation.
SPRING 2015
Cornell University | “Landform Genealogy.” Graduate research seminar.
What differentiates the artificial landform from the natural, and the landform as earth art from the landform as
industry? This seminar investigates the coevolution of landforms, habitation, and resource extraction in the greater
Finger Lakes region. It considers the role of the landform as an artifact, a monument, and a resource. Through
research and on-site analysis, students are asked to construct a visual catalogue of local landforms that indexes their
geologic, cultural, and aesthetic relationships.
FALL 2015
Theses Advised
“Landscapes of Mining.” Advisee: Jinhee Ha, MLA candidate. 2016.
“Agrarian Act.” Advisee: Ian Peach, MLA candidate. 2016.
2013-2014
CCA + UC Berkeley. Guest critic on undergraduate + graduate reviews at California College of the Arts + UC Berkeley
+ Contributor to the first CCA Urban Lab publication The Agent with Chris Roach and Neeraj Bhatia.
KATHERINE JENKINS • 118 W Court Street Apt. 3 Ithaca, NY 14850 • 203.535.3881 • katherine.a.jenkins@gmail.com • www.topo-logic.com
SUMMER 2013
2011 - 2013
Summer Design Institute UVa | Teaching Assistant to Teresa Gali and Matthew Jull_Charlottesville, VA
+ Teaching Assistant for incoming Masters of Architecture and Landscape Architecture students
+ Led model making, bookmaking, + representation workshops; constructed and installed 80’ exhibit table; designed
and manufactured bound volumes of student models, diagrams, and a journal of the curriculum; daily desk crits
UVa School of Architecture I Teaching Assistant (4 semesters)_Charlottesville, VA
+ Landscape Surfaces_2nd and 3rd year graduate course on landscape surfaces with Professor Brian Osborn
+ Draw to Know_undergraduate and graduate drawing course with Professor Pamela Black
+ Lessons in Making_undergraduate art + architecture course with Professor Sanda Illiescu
+ Studio_first year graduate landscape studio with Professor Zaneta Hong
PUBLICATIONS
+ LECTURES
(FORTHCOMING)
ARID Journal. Peer-reviewed. “Seeing Through Subtraction,” with P. Sutton. Fall, 2015.
Bracket: Takes Action (Volume 4). “Off the Wall,” with P. Sutton. Actar. Barcelona-New York. 2015.
2015
Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture Lecture Series. “Great Basin Exercises,” October 2015.
Places Journal. “Watermark: Notes from the California Aqueduct,” with John Bass. September 2015.
2014
ASLA Annual Meeting.“The Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Mega-Infrastructure on Unstable Ground,” with P. Sutton.
Education session lecture, Denver, Co. Nov. 21-24, 2014.
2013
Uncube Magazine. Blog: Lens. “Paydirt: The Spoils of Construction in San Francisco,” with P. Sutton. Berlin, Germany. 26 March, 2014.
Lunch 9: Excess. “Salt Sand Sieve,” with P. Sutton. (pages 68-74). University of Virginia School of Architecture. 2014.
Catalyst: Conditions. “Maps and Myths: Navigating an Ice-Free Arctic” with P. Sutton. Actar / Paper Matters
Barcelona. 2013.
EXHIBITIONS
2015
“Terra Interra.” Public installation on Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY
“Maps and Myths.” Arctic Design Initiative Exhibition. Elemalah Gallery, UVa School of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA
2013
“Site Marking.” Public installation and earthwork construction on UVa’s historic grounds, Charlottesville, VA
2012
“Portals of Perception.” Landscape paintings at Agora Gallery, New York, NY
“A Walk in the Park,” Solo painting show at Visions West Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2010
“Fresh Paint.” Landscape paintings at the Flinn Gallery_Greenwich, CT
“Rose Garden Atelier Benefit.” Landscape Paintings at the C.A.M. Gallery_Istanbul, Turkey
2009
“60th Annual Art of the Northeast.” Landscape paintings at Silvermine Artist’s Guild_New Canaan, CT
AWARDS
2015
Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) Residency. Wendover, Utah. June - July 2015.
2014
Patrick Curran Fellowship | SWA sponsored research fellowship for “Watermark”
2013
“Salt Sand Sieve” | Center for Architecture and Design SF + SEED Fund 280 Freeway Competition: Winner
SWA ASLA Professional Merit Award for Research, Planning, Analysis + Communication
ASLA Student Merit Award
2010-2013
Joseph Norwood Bosserman Student Fellowship | University of Virginia, Charlottesville
KATHERINE JENKINS • 118 W Court Street Apt. 3 Ithaca, NY 14850 • 203.535.3881 • katherine.a.jenkins@gmail.com • www.topo-logic.com
PEER REVIEWER
2015
“1:1.” The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) 2016. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Feb. 25-28, 2016.
ACADEMIC CITATIONS
2015
Carruth, Susan. Doctorate dissertation. Pending. (Re: Maps and Myths: Navigating and Ice-Free Arctic). 2015.
2013
Cho, Leena & Jull, Matthew. “Urbanized Arctic Landscapes: Critiques and Potentials from a Design Perspective.”
Arctic Urban Sustainability Conference Proceedings. George Washington University. May 2013. (Re: Maps and Myths:
Navigating and Ice-Free Arctic).
SELECTED PRESS
2013
“Winners Proposals Suggest Alternatives for San Francisco’s 280 Freeway,” by Barbara Porada. Archdaily. Sep. 7, 2013.
“Design Competition Considers Life After Highway 280,” by Allison Arieff. SPUR Blog. Sep. 17, 2013.
“Announcing the 280 Freeway Competition Winners,” American Institute of Architects, SF. Sep. 3, 2013.
“Designing For The Carpocalypse: 5 Ideas For A Pedestrian Freeway,” Lamar Anderson. Architizer. Sep 10, 2013.
“280 Freeway Competition winners re-envision San Francisco,” by Anna Marie Erwert. San Francisco Gate Blog. Sep. 10, 2013.
“Down With Highway 280: Design Winners Get Creative,” Michael Conrad. SF Curbed. Sep. 6, 2013.