PRESENT PRACTICE
PRESENT PRACTICE
Present Practice is led by Katie Jenkins and Parker Sutton. Together (and sometimes separately), we write, draw, build and grow. We also teach. We are currently professors of landscape architecture at the Knowlton School at Ohio State University. We make landscapes that are abundant and chemical-free, that express regionality and embrace spontaneity. We want people to touch and smell the vegetative growth around them and to find pleasure through contact with the living world. Our name reflects an intention to be present in the work that we do and for that work to be sustaining.
We are winners of the 2022-2023 Gilmore D. Clark and Michael I. Rapuano/ Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome. In Winter/Spring 2019, we were awarded MacDowell Fellowships in Architecture. We were Lead Instructors and Artists in Residence at the University of Oregon Overlook Field School in 2017 and 2018 and Artists in Residence at the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in 2015. In 2019-2020, we were Co-Directors of the Knowlton Rome Program.
In 2022, we were featured in Metropolis Magazine. We have been invited jurors at Harvard, Penn, Cornell, RISD, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, Syracuse, and elsewhere. We have shared our work at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Conference and lectured at universities in the United States and Europe.
Please email us at: hello@presentpractice.com