POOLE DESIGN, Landscape Architecture • Urban Design • Ecological Infrastructure

Registered Landscape Architect, Texas. Registration Number 1723

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia

1033 Hazel Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902-4904

tel. 434.971.9821

email: kpoole@virginia.edu

E d u c a t i o n

1980-81 Pursued Piano Performance degree. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

1981-85 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, cum laude. Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

1987-90 Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

P r o f e s s i o n a l H o n o r s

1991 Honor Award, Unbuilt Design, Texas Chapter of ASLA, Columbus Common.

1995 Design selected for EcoRevelatory Designs: Nature Constructed/Nature Revealed, publication and traveling exhibition.

2000 Competition Winner, Unbuilt Landscapes, Land Forum. Published 2001.

A c a d e m i c H o n o r s

1989 Penny White Scholarship, Harvard University, "A Public Landscape for Columbus, Indiana."
1990 Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, "The Aesthetics of Politics: Stockholm's Park System, 1927-35."
1990 Penny White Scholarship, Harvard University, "Predicting Vegetation Species Richness in Hedgerows," Letchworth, England.
1990-91 Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, "The Transformation of Nature in the Architecture of Alvar Aalto.

L a n d s c a p e A r c h i t e c t u r e a n d U r b a n D e s i g n P r a c t i c e

1985-1987 Odell Associates, Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture, Engineering. Charlotte, North Carolina.
Responsibilities: Design, development, and construction drawings of office parks, hospital complexes, industrial parks, single-family developments. Project management.

1988-89 Aga Khan Unit For Housing, Harvard University.
Responsibilities: Illustrator and secondary author, "Low Maintenance Landscapes for the Middle East."

1987 Derek Lovejoy and Associates. London, England.
Responsibilities: Preparation of Public Enquiry Documents for various projects.

1988 Duany/Plater-Zyberk Associates.Town Plan, "Kentlands". Gaithersberg, Virginia.1988.
Charrette Participant. Responsibilities: Development of "open space" areas.

1990 Morgan Wheelock, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts.
Responsibilities: Design development of estate paving designs, pool and gardens, planting design; county club tennis facilities and garden; design development of corporate landscape.

1991-92 Office of James Burnett, Landscape Architect. Houston, Texas.
Responsibilities: Design, development, and construction drawings for gardens; Master planning of hospital complexes.

1992-93 SWA Group, Inc. Landscape Architecture. Houston, Texas.
Responsibilities: Design, development, and construction drawings for various types of open spaces (parks, plazas, greenways, detention parks); Project management and construction supervision.

1993- Independent practice, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.Professional Honor

S u c c e s s f u l F e l l o w s h i p a n d G r a n t A p p l i c a t i o n s

National + International

1996 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Civic Ecology: Boston's Back Bay Fens as Civic Infrastructure.

1998 Alton Jones Foundation, Developing Tools for Integrating Ecological Techniques into the Architecture School Curriculum. Awarded January.

1999 Ralph Hudson Environmental Fellowship, Boston's Back Bay Fens: Transforming A Classic Case Study Into A Three-Dimensional Animation of Ecological Dynamics.

University of Virginia

1998-99 Associate Fellowship + $5000 grant, Institute for the Advancement of Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, A Three-Dimensional Animation of Cultural Dynamics: The Relationship of Park, People, and Development. Awarded March 1998.

1998-99 Fellowship, University Teaching Fellows Program 1998-99, University of Virginia, Technics of Civic Hydrology: Visual Case Studies of Stormwater Infrastructure. Awarded April 1998.

1999 Resident Fellowship for 1999-2001, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. Boston's Back Bay Fens: Transforming A Classic Case Study Into A Three-Dimensional Animation of Ecological Dynamic. Awarded February.

1999 Grant, Faculty Senate Initiative to Promote Excellence in Teaching, University of Virginia. A Physical + Virtual Herbarium of Middle Atlantic Wetland Plants. Awarded May.

School of Architecture, University of Virginia

1995 Tools for Understanding the Hydrology of the University of Virginia Campus, Dean’s Forum Grant.

1996 Civic Ecology: Boston's Back Bay Fens as Civic Infrastructure, Funded Summer Research.

1996 A River Guidebook, Funded Research.

1997 Representing Site, (with Robin Dripps, primary proposal author, Wendy Lathrop, Elizabeth Meyer, Lucia Phinney, William Sherman).

1997 Hydrocivitas: An Ecological Stormwater Design for Charlottesville, Virginia, The Sacharuna Foundation Piedmont Initiative.

1997 Wet Land Techniques, Funded Summer Research.

1999 "A Physical + Virtual Herbarium of Middle Atlantic Wetland Plants," Dean’s Forum Grants.

2000 "Taking the Show on the Road: Crating ‘The Life of Water’," Dean’s Forum Grants.

2001 Book Chapter. "Building Ecological Understandings In Studio: A Repertoire for a Well-Crafted Learning Experience," Kathy Poole, primary author, with Susan Galatowitsch, Robert Grese, Douglas Johnston, J. Timothy Keller, Lee R. Skabelund, Carl Steinitz, Joan Woodward, David Richey. A chapter in the forthcoming publication by Island Press. The chapter is an outgrowth of the Shire Conference, Teaching Ecology in Design and Planning Programs, 16-19 July, Columbia River Gorge, Washington.


Publications

Peer-Reviewed Published Articles

1994 "Ecology as Content: A Subversive (Alternative) Approach to Landscape Design." Ecology, Aesthetics and Design: Scholarly Papers Presented at the 1994 ASLA Annual
Meeting and EXPO, October 8-11, 1994, San Antonio, Texas. American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

1994 "Context vs. Concept: Reconstituting the Generation of Form and Content in Landscape Architecture." Proceedings of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Annual Symposium, Mississippi State University, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mississippi State University.

1995 "Civic Ecology: Infrastructure in the Dynamic City," Critical Urbanism, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Northeast Regional Conference 1995, November 1995.

1995 "Civic Infrastructure: Ecology in the Dynamic City," Renewing the American City, Proceedings of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of
Educators in Landscape Architecture, October 1995.

1997 "The Aesthetics of Infrastructure: An Ecological Stormwater Design for the University of Virginia," (with Prof. Shaw Yu, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Virginia), Aesthetics in the Constructed Environment: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Water Resources Planning and Management Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers.

1998 "Civitas Oecologie: Civic Infrastructure in the Ecological City," Harvard Architecture Review. Accepted for publication January 1995.

1999 "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia," Design Proposal, Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998, Landscape Journal. Accepted for publication March 1997.

2000 "Civic Hydrology: Water as Civic Infrastructure in Bellevue, Washington," Arcade, A Journal for Architecture and Design in the Northwest, Fall 2000, vol. 19-1.

2001 "Evolutionary Infrastructure : Urban Landscapes' Potential Roles + Expressions," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Los Angeles, 11-15 March 2000.

2001 "Creative Infrastructure: Dynamic Intersections of Urban Ecology And Civic Life," Proceedingsof the Annual Conference of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Los Angeles, 11-15 March 2000.

Published Articles

1994 "On the Sublime and the Beautiful: Mount St. Helens Photographs by Frank Gohlke," Review of Exhibit Featured at the 1993 Conference of the Council of Educators in
Landscape Architecture. Landscape Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, Fall.

1999 Critic at Large : "Civic Hydrology: Defining Public Ground in Frederick, Maryland," Landscape Architecture Magazine, June.

1999 "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial: Review of Two Publications and Critical Review of Memorial," Land Forum , inaugural issue 01.Peer-Reviewed Publications

2001 "Creative Infrastructure: Dynamic Intersections of Urban Ecology And Civic Life," Proceedingsof the Annual Conference of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Los Angeles, 11-15 March 2000.

2001 "Evolutionary Infrastructure : Urban Landscapes' Potential Roles + Expressions," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Los Angeles, 11-15 March 2000.

2002 Book Chapter. "Building Ecological Understandings In Studio: A Repertoire for a Well-Crafted Learning Experience," Kathy Poole, primary author, with Susan Galatowitsch, Robert Grese, Douglas Johnston, J. Timothy Keller, Lee R. Skabelund, Carl Steinitz, Joan Woodward, David Richey. A chapter in Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning, Edited by Kristina Hill and Bart Johnson. The chapter is an outgrowth of the Shire Conference, Teaching Ecology in Design and Planning Programs, 16-19 July, Columbia River Gorge, Washington.

Accepted and In Press

due 2003 Book Chapter. "Watershed Management as Urban Design: The Civic Hydrology of Bellevue, Washington," The chapter is an outgrowth of Water Sensitive Ecological Design and Planning," Harvard University, 26-28 February 2000.

Publication, Commentaries, and Public Discussions of Work

Journals + Magazines

1997 John Beardsley, "Strategies of Change?," Landscape Architecture Magazine, July .

1998 Mary Cail, "The Future of the Piedmont and the World: William McDonough and The Institute of Sustainable Design," Albemarle Magazine, April-May.

1999 Paul Bennett, "Making Water Visible," Landscape Architecture Magazine, April 1999, pp. 70-75, 96-99. Discussion of Wet Lands mapping and Carr’s Hill Design proposal.

1999 Brenda Brown, "Holding Moving Landscapes," Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998 Landscape Journal, pp. 52-68. Discussion of "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia."

1999 Richard Haag, "Eco-Revelatory Design: The Challenge of the Exhibit," Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998 Landscape Journal, pp. 72-79. Commentary on "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia."

1999 Susan Galatowitsch, "Ecological Design for Environmental Problem Solving," Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998 Landscape Journal, pp. 99-107. Discussion of "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia."

1999 Patricia Phillips, "Intelligible Images: The Dynamics of Disclosure," Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998 Landscape Journal, pp. 109-117. Commentary on "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia."

1999 Robert L. Thayer, Jr., "Landscape as an Ecologically Revealing Language," Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998 Landscape Journal, pp. 118-129. Discussion of "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia."

1999 Frederick Turner, "A Cracked Case," Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, Special Issue 1998 Landscape Journal, pp. 130-138. Mention of "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia."

2000 "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia," Design Proposal, discussed in Designed Landscape Forum: Unbuilt Work.

2001 "A Fluid Existence," Landscape Architecture Magazine, January 2001, discussion of mapping exhibition.

2001 Julian Raxworthy, "Kathy Poole at MESH," Landmark.

2001 Jacky Bowring, "Reflective Poole," Landscape New Zealand, Nov/Dec.

2001 Liz Cummins, Kate Dernelley, Jacky Bowring, Annette Warner, "Interview with Kathy Poole," Kerb.

Newspapers

1999 Anne Grundon, "’That’s a Great View’: Landscape Architect from Uva Sizing up Bristol’s Potential," Bristol Herald Courier, 24 March 1999, p. 1.

1999 David Gregory, "Urban Ecology Part 1: Civic Hydrology," Green Print, Cook College, Rutgers University, 24 February 1999, p. 6.

2000 Anne Grundon, "’It’s Perfect’: Landscape Architect’s Search for Stones to Finish Bristol Design Ends," Bristol Herald Courier, 4 May 2000, p.1.

2001 J. H. Osborne, "Green Summit Draw 80 People to Discuss Kingsport Landscape," Kingsport Times News, 9 November 2001, p. B1-2.

E x h i b i t i o n s

Exhibitions of Professional Work

1997 Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia, Design Proposal, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, September.

1997-98 Civic Hydrology: The Waters of Charlottesville, School of Architecture, University of Virginia.

1998 The Life of Water at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, 28 September – 23 October.

1999 "Evolutionary Infrastructure : Boston's Back Bay Fens As a Case Study of Infrastructure's Potential Roles and Expressions, 1775 – present," American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting and Expo, September 1999, Boston, Massachusetts.

Invited Exhibitions

1998-00 "Wet Lands: Civic Stormwater + Contingent Spaces, Carr's Hill University of Virginia, Design Proposal, Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed / Nature Revealed, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Chicago Botanic Museum, Boston Architectural Center, Iowa State University, National Building Museum.

1999 Civic Hydrology: Water as Civic Infrastructure. Exhibit accompanying Sustainable Futures for the Piedmont, a symposium sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Design, University of Virginia, September.

1999 "Hot Springs: Potentials for the Next Millennium," Hot Springs National Park, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Exhibition of Design Proposal for Hot Springs, Arkansas with Theodore M. Jones III, 30 April - 9 May.

2000-2002 "The Life of Water",Cornell University, California Polytechnical University, Pomona, CA; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Texas, Arlington; Ball State University; Rutgers University.

Invited Public Lectures

1995 "Expressions of Civic Ecology," School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park.

1996 "Civitas Oecologie: Civic Ecology and the Creative Site," School of Environmental Design, University of Pennsylvania.

1996 "Civic Ecology and the Creative Site," 1996 International Conference of Society for Ecological Restoration, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

1997 "Lessons Learned? Teaching Landscape Ecology in Design and Planning Programs," International Association of Landscape Ecology, Durham, North Carolina, with Bart Johnson and Kristina Hill (session organizers), Sharon Collinge, Shashir Raval, Jack Ahearn, Joan Nassauer, and Ken Tamminga.

1997 "Civic Ecology: Ecological Infrastructure in the Sustainable City," Opportunities in Sustainable Development: Strategies for the Chesapeake Basin, College Park, Maryland, 21-22 March.

1997 "The Aesthetics of Infrastructure: An Ecological Stormwater Design for the University of Virginia," (with Prof. Shaw Yu, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Virginia), Aesthetics in the Constructed Environment, 24th Annual Conference of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, Houston, 6-9 April.

1997 "Creative Infrastructure: Dynamic Intersections of Urban Ecology and the Civic Realm," Landscape Urbanism Symposium, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago/Graham Foundation, 26-27 April.

1997 "Creative Infrastructure," School of Architecture, University of Kentucky, 5 November.

1999 Creative Infrastructure and the Making of Cities," Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 10 February.

1999 "Creative Infrastructure: Reframing Ecology within the Built Landscape," Cook College, Rutgers University, 25 February.

1999 "Hot Springs: Using Water to Invigorate the National Park, the Creek, and the City," Arkansas Festival for the Arts, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1 May.

1999 "Evolutionary Infrastructure : Boston's Back Bay Fens As a Case Study of Infrastructure's Potential Roles and Expressions, 1775 – present," American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting and Expo, September 1999, Boston, Massachusetts.

2000 "Synthetic Expressions: Resituating Ecology Within Urban Systems," Water Sensitive Ecological Design and Planning," Harvard University, 26-28 February.

2000 "Synthetic Expressions: Resituating Ecology Within Urban Systems," Eco-Revelatory Design Symposium, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 28-29 February.

2000 "Synthetic Expressions: Resituating Ecology Within Urban Ideals," University of Kentucky, 23 March.

2000 "Ecological Dynamics in Landscape Architectural Research," One Hundred Years of Landscape Architecture at Harvard, Harvard University, 8 April.

2000 "Holding History," School of Architecture, Cornell University, September.

2000 "Evolutionary Infrastructure: Parks As Essential Infrastructures," Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America, Boston,14 November.

2001 "The Life of Water," California Polytechnical University, Pomona, 11 January.

2001 "The Life of Water," University of Colorado, Boulder; 11 February.

2001 "Evolutionary Infrastructure," Iowa State University, 12 March.

2001 "The Life of Water," University of Texas, Arlington, 20 March.

2001 "The Life of Water," Ball State University, 10 September.

2001 "Resituating Ecological Designs within Urban Design: The Civic Hydrology of Curitiba, Brazil," Mid-Atlantic Governors' Conference on Greenways, Blueways and Green Infrastructure, Arlington, Virginia, 16-19 September.

P u b l i c S e r v i c e

Local

1994/95 Participant, Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Forum, "Infrastructure" sessions, Charlottesville, Virginia.

1995 Advisor to Moormans Scenic River Advisory Committee and Faculty Advisor to student community service project, "Guide to Virginia Rivers."

1996 Instructor and Coordinator of Northampton County Ecological Structure Plans, a tool for Comprehensive Plan for the County and the Nature Conservancy.

1996-97 Jury Member, Conceptual Design Competition for the Public Grounds on the Carroll Creek Linear Park, Frederick, Maryland.

1996-97 Development of "A River Guidebook," a primer on river ecology + best management practices (on hold).

1997 Analysis and Plan/Design for Eco-Industrial Park, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia. Project and Presentation as part of Introduction to Sites class.

1997 Reviewer, Recommendations, Rivanna Roundatable, Charlottesville, Virginia.

1997-98 Design Consultant, Rivanna Development Proposal, Charlottesville, Virginia.

1998 Panel Discussion Member, "The City as a Park: A Citizens' Guide to Charlottesville Parks," Virginia Festival of the Book.

1998 Studio Instructor and Development of Design Alternatives that support the University’s Master Plan for Water Resource Management, Landscape Urbanism Studio. The Life of Water at the University of Virginia: Alternative Futures for Water Resources Management, Fall.

1999 Lecture, "Holding History: Waters of the University of Virginia Landscape," Albemarle County Historical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2 April.

1999 Tourism + Development Initiatives for Cape Haitien, Haiti, Summer 1998.

Professional Service

1996- present Review Reader for Landscape Journal, scholarly landscape architectural journal.

1996-97 Advisory Board for Shire Conference, symposium on teaching ecology in landscape design and planning, held in Oregon in 1999.

1996-97 Advisory Board, Opportunities in Sustainable Development: Strategies for the Chesapeake Basin, College Park, Maryland, 21-22 March 1997.

1998 Session coordinator and leader, "Ecology in Studio," Shire Conference, 16-19 July, Columbia River Gorge, Washington.

1998- Reviewer for Island Press, various publications.