Kim Wilkie is a British land architect. Having studied in the UK and USA, he now collaborates with architects and engineers around the world and combines designing towns and landscapes with the muddy practicalities of running a small farm in the South Downs National Park in England. His projects span from the Russian Arctic Circle to Southern Chile.
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
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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. I grew up in the humidity of the Malaysian jungle, then the clarity of the Iraqi desert and finally the softness of the English countryside. When we finally settled on a small farm in Hampshire, my long-term reaction to the nomadic early life was to put down a tap root that tethers deep.