Mikyoung Kim

Mikyoung Kim is an international Landscape Architect with work throughout the United States, the Middle East and South Korea. Her recent work has focused on the healing properties of landscape architecture within the public realm. As design director of Mikyoung Kim Design, Kim has designed a number of award winning public spaces that merge sculptural experience with sustainable landscape strategies, including the ChonGae Canal Restoration Project - Source Point Park in Seoul, Korea (2005), the Crown Sky Garden in Chicago, IL (2012), the Plaza at the Prudential at 888 Boylston in Boston, the roof garden for the John Hancock Tower in Boston, MA, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Holographic Arts Commission, and Pier 4 Seaport Plaza in Boston, MA. Kim's background in music and the fine arts shapes the public work that she has completed. Her recent work with regenerative landscapes was highlighted this year in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. and in an interview on ABC new’s the Chronicle. In 2015 Architectural Digest named Mikyoung Kim as one of the years AD Innovators

The work of her firm, Mikyoung Kim Design has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, the Architizer A+ Awards, the International Federation of Landscape Architects, the Harvard Design School, the General Services Administration, the Urban Waterfront Center, the Korean Cultural Commission, and the Land Forum Design Awards. In 2009, Mikyoung Kim’s personal history was archived in the Smithsonian Museum’s “American Voices Collection”. She has been involved nationally as a jury member for numerous competitions and awards, most notably, the Heinz Award Jury for the Arts and Humanities, the Living with Water Competition, and the Eisenhower Memorial Jury with the General Services Administration. Mikyoung Kim Design’s work has been published in Dwell Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Garden Design, Architectural Record, Surface Magazine, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture Magazine and a monograph of the work of MYKD, “Inhabiting Circumference”.

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