{"id":195315,"date":"2022-04-29T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=195315"},"modified":"2022-04-29T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:16:58","slug":"pulitzer-arts-foundation-and-sam-fox-school-name-landscape-architect-kotchakorn-voraakhom-designer-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/architect\/pulitzer-arts-foundation-and-sam-fox-school-name-landscape-architect-kotchakorn-voraakhom-designer-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Sam Fox School Name Landscape Architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom Designer-In-Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom<\/h3>\r\n

T<\/span>he Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have named the internationally celebrated landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom<\/a> as designer-in residence. The founder of the Bangkok-based design firm Landprocess and nonprofit Porous City Network<\/a>, Voraakhom\u2019s work centers on designing productive urban green spaces that alleviate the effects of climate change in at-risk communities. She will serve as designer-in-residence for a year-long appointment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Chulalongkorn Centenary Park. Photo courtesy of VARP Studio.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Voraakhom\u2019s major projects include Bangkok\u2019s Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, which can collect and store up to a million gallons of runoff and flood water; the Thammasat University Urban Rooftop Farm, the largest urban rooftop farm in Asia; and Chao Phraya Sky Park, a pedestrian walkway and elevated garden installed on an abandoned bridge over the Chao Phraya River.<\/p>\r\n

She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University in 2002 and attended Harvard University\u2019s Graduate School of Design, earning her master\u2019s in landscape architecture in 2006. Voraakhom launched Landprocess in 2011\u2014the same year that her family\u2019s Bangkok home was decimated by record-setting floods.<\/p>\r\n

Landprocess, which is dedicated to helping cities navigate climate uncertainty, won the competition to design the 11-acre Centenary Park, Bangkok\u2019s first new public park in nearly 30 years. Completed in 2017, the park can alleviate flood risk during heavy rainfall by collecting and holding runoff, which is filtered through a large green roof; wetlands filled with native water plants; and a retention pond that can double in size.<\/p>\r\n

Voraakhom explained in a recent interview for the New York Times that the design for Centenary Park was partly inspired by the example of a monkey\u2019s cheek, which can expand to store food until the monkey is hungry: \u201cThis is a kind of monkey cheek for water in the city.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In Fall 2021 Voraakhom served as visiting professor in the Sam Fox School, teaching the seminar \u201cMessy Fluid Urbanism,\u201d which explored climate-related challenges in delta cities around the world. She also spoke in the school\u2019s Public Lecture Series in spring 2021. As the annual capstone for the university\u2019s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design\u2019s Master of Urban Design program, Voraakhom will host WashU students in Bangkok as part of the 2022 Global Urbanism Studio, led by senior lecturer Jonathan Stitleman, this summer.<\/p>\r\n

Her appointment as designer-in-residence will begin July 1 and continue through the 2022-23 academic year. Organized around the topic \u201cEcologies of Access for Vulnerable Sites in St. Louis,\u201d her residency will include nearly a month of local site visits and engagement activities. Voraakhom also will continue to serve as a visiting professor in the Sam Fox School, co-teaching a studio for the school\u2019s Master of Landscape Architecture program in spring 2023 and participating in reviews, critiques and other aspects of university life. The residency will culminate with a public event later that spring.<\/p>\r\n

Stemming from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University\u2019s shared commitment to rethinking the future of St. Louis, the residency is one of several projects funded by an endowment created by Emily Rauh Pulitzer to support collaboration between the two institutions. It is organized by Derek Hoeferlin, WashU\u2019s chair oflandscape architecture and urban design, in conjunction with the Pulitzer\u2019s Public Engagement Team and the Sam Fox School\u2019s Office for Socially Engaged Practice.<\/p>\r\n

Other recent collaborations between the Pulitzer and the Sam Fox School include the ASAP Fund, a series of grants designed to help artists navigate the COVID-19 pandemic; a residency by artist Jordan Weber; and several iterations of the PXSTL design competition.<\/p><\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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