Playful Dualities of Public Spaces | Michelle Delk

To mark our 25th year of showcasing innovative and much-honored landscape design professionals and their contributions to this ever-changing field, we invite three outstanding landscape architects from around the world— Richard Roark, Michelle Delk, and Sierra Bainbridge —to highlight their signature projects, working methods, and design philosophies.

For over 20 years, landscape architect Michelle Delk, partner at New York-based firm, Sn∅hetta, has led projects ranging from master plans and brownfield redevelopments to urban parks, streetscapes, and riverfronts. Her work follows her firm's foundational premise: to create places that enhance the positive relationships between people and their environments. From urban canopies to canyons; intimate sculpture gardens to wild west landscapes; rocking seesaws to post-modern histories, Delk will share the intriguing dualities she has explored in recent projects. Michelle Delk is a passionate advocate and designer of the public realm. She encourages innovative approaches to collaboration that are non-hierarchical and trans-disciplinary. Throughout her career, Delk has engaged with a variety of landscape advocacy organizations, curatorial projects, and academic institutions.

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