PROFILE
Hyemin Gu is a landscape designer and gardener from Seoul, South Korea. She is a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at the Harvard University School of Design. As a landscape designer, she has been awarded for submissions to many design competitions including the 2020 Young Architects Competition, Taksim Urban Design Competition, 2018 Seoul Show Gardens, and 2021 Maehyang-ri Show Garden. Throughout the course of her practice, she has developed hands-on experience by building several gardens and south to maintain a strong connection with plants as a design tablature. She has given much thought to the garden’s construction and the selection of materials that would both confi rm to a given concept and ensure feasibility from design to construction. In the future, she hopes to design spaces and artwork that integrate the positive attributes of plants with technology; the is plants can be used as inspiration for art or as a design metaphor / material, with technology supporting its sustainability.
EDUCATION
Harvard University - Graduate School of Design
Master of Landscape Architecture AP, 2023
Seoul National University
Master of Landscape Architecture, 2016
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CSS D/S LLP, Landscape Designer, 2022-Present
Dae-ryuk Engineering and Construction, Landscape Designer, 2016-2019
Plant X Plant Landscape Design Studio, Landscape Designer, 2017-2019
Freelance Landscape Designer, 2016-Present
EXHIBITIONS
Landscape Designer, 2018 Envision Seoul Underground, Donuimun Open Creative Village, Seoul
DESIGN AWARDS
2021 Maehyang-ri Garden Show, Kyunggi, South Korea (permanent installation), First Prize
2020 Young Architect Competition (YAC) Hyperloop Desert Campus, Second Prize
2018 Seoul Garden Show, Yeouido Park, Seoul (permanent installation) South Korea, Bronze Medal
2015 72-hour Urban Revitalization Project, Seoul, South Korea, Second Prize
2014 11t National Exhibition of Korean Landscape Architecture, Second Prize
2014 Graduate Exhibition for Landscape Architecture Design, Kyungpook National University, South
Korea, Second Prize
