Kate Orff

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.

Orff was educated at the University of Virginia and Harvard University. She was listed first by Elle magazine in 2011 as one of nine women involved as "fixers" for mankind.

She is the Director of the Urban Design Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is founder and co-director of the Urban Landscape Lab. According to the Urban Landscape Lab biographical information her office, SCAPE, has won local and national design awards. She was named a Dwell Magazine ‘Design Leader’ and H&G’s 50 For the Future of Design and received a 2008 National ASLA award (Communications category).

In 2012 Orff was named a United States Artists Fellow.

In 2014, Orff was recognized for her work designing the 103rd Street Community Garden, a winning site of Built by Women New York City, a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014 to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women.

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