# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kate-orff
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:06:32.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kate-orff"
name: "Kate Orff"
slug: "kate-orff"
description: "Kate Orff is an American landscape architect. She is the founding principal of SCAPE, a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She is also the director the Urban Design Program (MSAUD) at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and co-director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes. Orff is the first landscape architect to receive a MacArthur Fellowship."
tagline: "American architect"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kate_Orff_-_Climate_Change_and_the_Scales_of_Environment_(24705846441)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.95
  momentum:             7.627118644067796
  historical:           7.00936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KateOrff"
    handle:    "KateOrff"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.scapestudio.com"
sources:
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    title: "کیت ارف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كيت أورف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كيت اورف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Orff"
    title: "Kate Orff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Orff"
    title: "Kate Orff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Orff"
    title: "Kate Orff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Orff"
    title: "Kate Orff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Orff"
    title: "Kate Orff"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump