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Kim Wilkie
Sculpting the Land
In his own words, Kim Wilkie is a landscape architect who loves mud. He works in the ancient British tradition of sculpting huge landforms out of clay and chalk and clothing them in grass. Drawing on history, insights, and experience, he will talk about these traditions and show examples of his renowned work from Heveningham Hall in Suffolk to Boughton in Northamptonshire. He will also show how the ideas can be translated into small urban spaces. Kim Wilkie studied history at Oxford and landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, before setting up his landscape studio in London in 1989. He collaborates with architects and landscape architects around the world and combines designing with the muddy practicalities of running a small farm in Hampshire, where he is now based. In 2012 Wilkie published Led by the Land, a book about his landscape philosophy and work. 

CEUs: This lecture has been approved for two credit hours by the: AIA, APLD, and LA CES.