
Janette Kim is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on design and ecology in relationship to public representation, interest, and debate. Janette is Assistant Professor of architecture and Co-Director of the Urban Works Agency at California College of the Arts, principal of the design practice All of the Above, and editor and founder of ARPA Journal, a digital publication on applied research practices in architecture.
Recent projects include The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform (Princeton Architectural Press 2015, with Erik Carver), the Fall Kill Creek Master Plan, and the Safari tours on urban ecology (with Kate Orff and MTWTF). With All of the Above, Janette also designed the Pinterest headquarters (with First Office) and the National AIDS Memorial (with Chloe Town). Janette has worked in partnership with municipal agencies such as the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York and the City of Newark, as well as non-profit advocacy groups such as Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Her work has been awarded by the Graham Foundation and the Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship, and has been featured in NPR’s ‘Brian Lehrer Show,’ Artforum, Architect, Frame, GOOD, and the feature-length documentary, The Grove. Janette’s work has been exhibited in subway systems in New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Sao Paulo; a private house in Levittown, NY; and galleries including Artists Space, Eyebeam and the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Janette was also Assistant Professor at Syracuse University from 2015-2016 and Adjunct Assistant Professor from 2005-2015 at Columbia University, where she directed the Applied Research Practices in Architecture initiative and the Urban Landscape Lab. Janette holds a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University.
Portfolio
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All of the Above
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The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform
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ARPA Journal
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Known Unknowns 2
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Underwear Factory Green Infrastructure Project: Signage
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Safari SZHK: Exhibition
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Safari SZHK: Workshop and Studio
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Safari 1 São Paulo: Exhibition
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Safari 1 São Paulo: Workshop
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Pinterest Headquarters
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Fall Kill Creek Signage
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A User’s Guide to the Fall Kill Creek
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Fall Kill Creek Master Plan
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Underdome
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What Does Green Mean 2?
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Known Unknowns
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Public Horizon
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Safari 4
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Levittown
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MycoMap
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Flushing River Canoe Tour
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Mobile Library Unit
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Life Support 2
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Degrees of Certainty
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Safari 7 Reading Room
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Safari 7
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What Does Green Mean?
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Crisis in Crisis: Biosphere 2′s Contested Ecologies
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Bargaining Table
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Senior Seminar: Urban Ecology
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Life Support
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This is Newark
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Beyond Recreation
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www.zhuanpan.org
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In the Field
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Biosphere X
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Veteran’s Project
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Interior Loft Renovation
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Superinclusive
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Special Topics: Active Research
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Common Profit
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National AIDS Memorial
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Atmosphere
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Fact Factory
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Senior Studio: Library
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RPI: Food Logic
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Pamphlet Architecture Entry: All of the Above
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RPI: Vertical Studio
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Broken Homes
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Fabricating Data, Fabricating Worlds
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If You Like
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Out of Many: Statistical Portraits of the American Public Gone Awry
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Worth Your Weight
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Places That Count
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OSU: Survey Says
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My Kind of Town
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American Landscape
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Master’s Thesis: e-All of the Above