Currently an all women’s team, there are people from multiple different backgrounds. Not only cultural backgrounds, but also varied professional specialties such as horticulture, design, fine arts, architecture, landscape architecture, and more. This contributes to having each person’s experiences fueling projects in different ways, providing deeper understanding. This deep understanding is further encouraged by the process of work in which designers contribute to projects from beginning to end, where each person is heavily involved from the early stages of design through to the building phase.
Elysian Landscapes appreciates not only having different points of view within design teams, but also outside of teams. We are always open to collaborate on projects, striving to open rich dialogues with the exchange of ideas.
Dana Bauer
An unexpected opportunity to work with Judy in 2012 on a Hollywood Masterplan initiated an exciting and lasting cross-disciplinary collaboration that ultimately led to their robust partnership. As an architect, Dana’s work has always focused on the ground as the greatest opportunity for unstructured urban experience and the meeting place of the natural and the constructed realms. Entrenched in the design community for over 20 years, Dana previously worked at Michael Maltzan Architecture, Graft and Gensler NY and has a long history of collaborative work across the arts, spanning fine art, theater, television, and dance. Dana holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of London, The Bartlett School of Architecture. A full-time design faculty member at SCI- Arc for many years, she continues to actively serve as a guest critic and lecturer at numerous schools of architecture and art. Her work has been selected for exhibition most recently at the Landscape Biennial in Barcelona and the Landscape Institute in London.
Judy Kameon
Judy Kameon is the founding partner of Elysian Landscapes. Her work in landscape design and construction has spanned over 25 years and has resulted in the making of hundreds of gardens. Raised in Santa Monica, California, Judy graduated from UCLA with a focus on painting, a study fundamental to her expressive designs. Soon after graduation, she purchased a property with an adjacent empty dirt lot and the transformation of that space became an obsession, and then a career. With her growing team, Judy continues to explore and embrace sustainable landscape practices. Elysian’s clients run the gamut, from filmmakers, artists, and writers to fashion houses, designers and developers. In tandem with her built work, Judy and her husband, the artist Erik Otsea, launched Plain Air, a collection of outdoor furniture inspired by mid-century modern design. In 2014, they again collaborated on Kameon’s first book “Gardens Are For Living”, published by Rizzoli. Kameon also regularly lectures about her unique design process and experiences as an artist and designer.
Barbara Farmer
ROSSI KIRILOVA
YINI TANG
ELAINE ROARK
