Senior Landscape Architect, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), CPH/NYC/LON
Lecture Title: BIG in the Public Realm
October 8, 2020
About Autumn
Autumn is a Senior Landscape Architect at BIG leading the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) and the Brooklyn-Queens Park (BQP) projects. Her approach has been devoted to building projects through a clear and concise methodology in better preparing cities and communities for climate adaptation. This direction evolved into designing and developing climate resilient strategies for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) alongside the national Rebuild By Design and the Mississippi River Delta Changing Course competitions. Autumn is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Outstanding Recent Alumna from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. She is also the 2011 recipient of the national ASLA student honor award and the 2010 VA ASLA Certificate of Honor. She also worked as a teaching and research assistant for the University of Pennsylvania while contributing to “Landscapes of Substance” published by Oro Press and the University of Pennsylvania.
About BIG
BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.