After 25 years of running his own practice, Kim now works as a strategic and conceptual landscape architect. He collaborates with architects and engineers around the world and combines designing with the muddy practicalities of running a small farm in Hampshire, where he is now based.
Kim studied history at Oxford and landscape architecture at U.C. Berkeley, before setting up his landscape studio in London in 1989. He continues to lecture internationally; writes optimistically about land and place from Hampshire; and is involved in various national committees on landscape and environmental policy in the UK. Kim’s book Led by the Land explores the ideas behind his projects. He is guided by the health of soil, water and the long history of humans living together with a natural world since the last Ice Age.
Contact
Hampshire:
Franklin Farm
Bishop’s Waltham
SO32 1FX
United Kingdom
+44 (0)7768 874089
kim@kimwilkie.com
London:
16 Bank Chambers
25 Jermyn Street
London SW1Y 6HR
United Kingdom
Doctor of Science honoris causa (University of Winchester)
Royal Designer for Industry
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Fellow of the Landscape Institute
MA Landscape Architecture (University of California, Berkeley)
MA Modern History (New College, Oxford)
Contact
Hampshire:
Franklin Farm
Bishop’s Waltham
SO32 1FX
United Kingdom
+44 (0)7768 874089
kim@kimwilkie.com
London:
16 Bank Chambers
25 Jermyn Street
London SW1Y 6HR
United Kingdom
KIM & HOPE, FRANKLIN FARM
My picture of the world formed within a childhood triangle of climates and cultures, always surrounded by animals. In Malaysia I made castles out of mud; in Iraq I carved miniature cities out of cliffs of compacted sand; and in England I learned to grow plants and tend cows. But perhaps most significant of all was the long-term reaction to a nomadic early life. When we finally settled on a small farm in Hampshire, I put down a tap root that tethers deep.