Anemone is an ecological designer and artist with a cosmopolitan life and career on three continents. She specializes in Urban Landscape Design, and Integrative and Sustainable Design and Aesthetics. In her design Anemone recovers feeling and emotion, often using eco-figurative design to convey meaning. Moving beyond a utilitarian understanding of ecology and „design with nature“, her interest is to create performing and poetic everyday landscapes that enable participatory and transformative experiences and inspire a growing desire to care. Anemone is principal and partner of Oikos, an internationally known landscape and architecture practice in the Netherlands. Founded1989 in Korea, together with her partner, Jusuck Koh, Oikos is unique in its combination of theory and practice, science and art, and experience in East and West, and has received many awards and recognitions for its works.

Lehrtätigkeit

Anemone studied Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at TU Berlin, Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology, Kyoto University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She taught in several European and Asian countries and was Visiting DAAD Professor in the International Master Programs of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Anemone holds degrees in Landscape and Urban Design from Berlin Technical University and University of Pennsylvania and was Visiting Professor at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Germany in the International Master Programs of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.

Auszeichnungen

Grand Prize, Korean Garden International Horticulture Expo Tangshan 2016
Special Prize, Swedish Garden International Horticulture Expo Tangshan 2016
Gold Medals, Japanese/Dutch/German Gardens, International Horticulture Expo Tangshan 2016
Global Awards for Excellence Winner (D-Cube City), Urban Land Institute, 2013
Grand Prize 2010-2012, Best Korean Landscape Architecture Project, Korea Ministry of Interior
IFLA President’s Award 2009, Best Landscape Planning Work, Intl. Federation of Landscape Architects, Asian Pacific Region (IFLA-APR)
Grand Prize for Outstanding Environmental Design, Korean Minister of Cultural Affairs
Architecture Grand Prize, Kyonggi Province
Gold Medal, Most Livable Apartment Complex, Korean Housing Industry Award

Wettbewerbe

Invited Finalist, Honorable Mention, International Design Competition, Yongsan Park Master Plan, 2012 1st Prize, Competition, Chongno Boulevard Re-Design, Seoul
1st Prize, Competition, Yongsan Family Park, Seoul
1st Prize, Competition, Saemaul Savings Bank, Chonan,
2nd Prize, (Honorable Mention), International Competition, French Embassy Landscape, New York, (Patricia Johanson, Invited Artist, with Oikos)
2nd Prize, Competition, Seoul World Cup Soccer Stadium (Consortium)

Ausstellungen, Vorträge

„Tradition and Ecology in Architecture and Urban Design“, Architalk Webinar Series 5, Asian Cultural Council and I-House (Japan) Architecture Series, 24 March 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwV3ozI1QN4
„City as Home“, Urban Design Forum 2019, Seoul, and Hongcheon City Council, Korea
„Venturing into Design Art“, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
„Gardens in the rear-view mirror“, Seoul University, Department of Landscape Architecture
„Design for transformative experience“, Malta, Gozo Island, Government Workshop on Tourism
„Design for Water – Water for Design“, Malta Association of Architects, Valletta