International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) President James Hayter announced the award at the 2019 World Congress in Oslo.
Kathryn Gustafson graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage in Versailles and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Since her early work in France, including a series of poetic landscapes for Shell Headquarters, Esso and L'Oreal, the influences of art, landscape and fashion have been evident in her designs. Her 1991 work on the Public Plaza in Evry was one of the first landscape projects in the world to create a flexible space with jets of water.
Other significant works include the award-winning Jardins de l'Imaginaire in Terrasson la Villedieu and The Lurie Garden in Chicago's Millennium Park, and the redesign of the open space around the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest award given by IFLA.
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