Kathleen Kambic
Education
- MLA, University of Virginia
- MArch, University of Virginia
Research
- Water
- Infrastructure
- Political Ecology
- Urbanism
- Landscape Theory
Kathleen Kambic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico and is an affiliate with the Water Resources Program, the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. She has worked for multiple nationally known design firms, including NBWLA and EDAW. Her research interests include water infrastructure, marginalized urban space, feminist political ecology, and landscape design theory. Her current research explores feminist critique of landscape architecture as well as water governance and the political ecology of arid landscapes. Recently, Kathleen has taught graduate seminars and studios on decentralized water infrastructure, design competitions, and typologies. She has also won multiple international design competitions on interdisciplinary faculty teams. Kathleen’s research on water infrastructure has expanded to a study of the Rio Grande and its many subbasins. She has a new book co-authored with Katya Crawford coming out in Spring 2025 entitled, The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture: Pedagogy and Practice.
LA 512- Water and the Environment (Spring 2017)
LA 502/402- Studio 2: Bosque Extension (of Mountain Avenue) and Missing and Murdered Women Memorial (Spring 2017)
LA 556/335 - Site and Environment with Alf Simon and John Barney (Fall 2016)
LA 505 - Studio 505 Competition Studio with Katya Crawford (Fall 2016)
“Urban Water Visibility in Los Angeles: Legibility and Access for All.” in A Political Ecology of Women, Water, and Global Environmental Change. Buechler, Stephanie J, and Anne-Marie Hanson, eds. 3/2015; 58-76.
“massive change, required - nine axioms for the future of landscape (architecture)” in KERB – Journal of Landscape Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, "Is Landscape Architecture Dead?" 2009; 17:105-110.
“The Infrastructural Era - Garden in the Machine” in R O O T: Resourceful Obstacles 2010: 2;4-8.
Review of Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch by Tracy Metz and Maartje van den Heuvel (eds.). In JoLA - Journal on Landscape Architecture 11/2013; 8(2):86-87.
“Sketch Crawl: Exploratory Physiocartographies of Place and Time," CELA: Space-Time-Place-Duration. University of Texas Austin, March 26-31, 2013. Peer reviewed panel presentation, workshop and exhibition.
"Forgotten Frames" CELA: Finding Center, Landscape + Values. University of Illinois, Champaign, IL March 28 – 31, 2012. Peer reviewed panel presentation and exhibition.
1st Place - "What's Up Paris" International Design Competition 2016
3rd Place - "Hornachuelos Reactivation" International Design Competition 2016
Water Resources Program Affiliate, UNM
Center of the American West Affiliate, University of Colorado Boulder
