The Dallas Architecture Forum will present Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, Founder and Design Director of award-winning Mikyoung Kim Design. Kim is internationally recognized for the studio’s culturally significant designs that celebrate the beauty of collective human experience.

Through landscape and urban design, the firm also addresses some of the most pressing environmental and health-related issues that face us today. The studio has been honored as the American Society of Landscape Architect’s Firm of the Year, and founder Mikyoung Kim, FASLA has received the ASLA’s National Design Medal and The Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. MYK-D has also been named as one of Fast Company’s "World’s Most Innovative Companies" and as an AD Innovator by Architectural Digest. The studio has received over fifty design awards, including numerous ASLA and AIA National Honor Awards for Design.

Mikyoung’s work incorporates resiliency and healthy living as integral components of the studio’s projects. Her diverse background in design, music and sculpture has shaped her body of work, blurring the boundaries between landscape, ecology and architecture. Trained as a concert pianist at Oberlin, she also studied Landscape Architecture at the Harvard GSD and public art at MIT. While at Harvard, she was an Olmsted Scholar and received the Norman T. Newton Prize and the Jacob Weidenman Prize. She has taught at the Harvard GSD and is a Professor Emerita at RISD, where she was awarded the college's Dean's Leadership Award. A frequent international speaker, she has lectured at Yale and Stanford, and served on prestigious juries including the Rome Prize.