MARCH 2025: Parker and Jack Gruber present several years of “Wilding “studio work at The Wilds Conservation Science Symposium on March 1 at Muskingum University.

FEBRUARY 2025: Katie and Parker share their work as part of the Zube Lecture Series at UMass Amherst on February 9.

JANUARY 2025: Katie presents an essay on quarry landscapes as part of the Familiar Landscapes symposium at Knowlton Hall on January 16.

OCTOBER 2024: Katie and Parker break ground on A Prairie with Nine Rooms on Ohio State’s main campus.

SEPTEMBER 2024: Katie’s essay “Drawing a Length of Ground” appears in Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools (Routledge, 2024)

AUGUST 2024: Parker and Katie are awarded grants from the OSU Sustainability Fund and the Integrated Physical Planning Liaison Group to construct a new campus landscape at Ackerman Road.

JUNE 2023: Katie and Parker exhibit at Open Studios at the American Academy in Rome on June 8, 2023.

MAY 2023: Katie and Parker lecture at the School of Architecture at La Sapienza University in Rome (Facoltá di Architettura, La Sapienza Universitá di Roma), on May 9, 2023.

FEBRUARY - JULY 2023: Katie and Parker are Gilmore D. Clark and Michael I. Rapuano/ Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize Fellows in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome.

OCTOBER 2022: Parker’s article, “A New Aesthetic of Care,” is published in the Journal of Architectural Education. (JAE) 76:2, “Pedagogies for a Broken World.”

MAY 2022: Parker is an invited critic at thesis reviews at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, May 13, 2022

APRIL 2022: Parker receives an OSEP (Ohio State Energy Partners) Grant in support of Prairie Baroque

MARCH 2021: Katie and Parker participate in final reviews at the University of Oregon School of Architecture & Environment

FEBRUARY 2021: Katie and Parker present the work of Present Practice at the University of Virginia Landscape Lab Lecture Series

DECEMBER 2020: Katie participates in final reviews at RISD Landscape Architecture

OCTOBER 2020: Katie’s essay, “A Way of Walking: Scholarship in the Open Air,” appears in LAM (Landscape Architecture Magazine)

MAY 2020: Katie and Parker’s essay “Off the Wall” is published in Bracket 4: Takes Action

JANUARY 2020: Parker is appointed to Assistant Professor of Practice at the Knowlton School of Architecture

SEPTEMBER 2019: Katie’s solo exhibit, “Meadow Lines,” opens at the Center for Art Research at the University of Oregon, Oct. 24-Nov.15, 2019

MAY 2019: Katie and Parker lead the Knowlton School of Architecture Rome Program from May to June

APRIL 2019: Katie and Parker are residents in architecture at MacDowell in Peterborough, NH, between April and May

MARCH 2019: Katie is an invited critic at Assistant Professor Jana VanDergoot’s studio at the University of Maryland School of Architecture

FEBRUARY 2019: Katie delivers a lecture at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

OCTOBER 2018: Katie and Parker lecture on the work of Present Practice at the Kent CAED (College of Architecture and Environmental Design) on October 29

OCTOBER 2018: Katie’s article, “In Praise of Limestone,” is published in “Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes,” on October 25

OCTOBER 2018: Work from the 2018 Overlook Field School, “Maintenance,” is exhibited at GALLERY: Land Collective in Philadelphia, PA, in conjunction with the 2018 ASLA Annual Meeting

JULY 2018: Present Practice Co-Directors Katie and Parker return as Visiting Instructors and Artists in Residence at the University of Oregon School of Landscape Architecture Overlook Field School in Waverly, PA

JUNE 2018: Present Practice gives a presentation of their work at the University of Oregon School of Architecture and the Environment

MAY 2018: Technofossils, Present Practice's entry to the LA+ Ideas Competition: Islands is selected for the Salon des Refusés and featured in the print edition of LA+ Imagination

MAY 2018: Katie's article, "Field Exercises," is featured in the Journal of Landscape Architecture| Issue 1-2018

APRIL 2018: Katie and Parker attend final reviews at Syracuse University School of Architecture

APRIL 2018: Katie attends final reviews at Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CADC)

JANUARY 2018: Roll Play is named a Finalist in the 19e édition du Festival International de Jardins (Jardins de Métis)