Why We're Here

Topophilia is an online publication devoted to landscape architecture and related fields, including urbanism, architecture and land art.

Liz Campbell Kelly

Liz holds an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Art/Semiotics from Brown University. She spent a year at the AA School of Architecture as part of her undergraduate education. She currently works as a landscape architect in NYC. Contact her at liz@topophilia.org

Kaarin Patterson

Kaarin Patterson has a Masters of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in Community and Environmental Planning from the University of Washington. She lives and works in New York City as a landscape architect and is now researching the “construction exhibition” phenomena or transformation of the post industrial landscape to the cultural landscape as demonstrated in the IBA Fürst-Pückler Land/Neuen See projects that are currently underway in the State of Brandenburg, Germany. To contact Kaarin about topophilia or non related, but scintillating items, email her at kaarin@topophilia.org

Adam Davis

Adam Davis works in London as an architect specializing in computational and parametric design. He holds Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Contributors

Danielle Choi

Danielle Choi is a student of landscape architecture at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, currently in her 6th and final semester.
She holds a bachelors degree in Art History from the University of
Chicago. Current research projects include: energy corridors in the
American West and emergent scenographic landscapes, South Carolina's
US-17, and finding employment.

Bryan Chou 

Yadiel J Rivera-Diaz

Sarah Van Sanden

Sarah Van Sanden is a student in her final year of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She holds undergraduate degrees in Fine Art and Ethnobotany from the University of Washington.