Christine Ten Eyck
Landscape architect Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA, is the founding principal of Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, based in Austin, Texas. During her career of more than 35 years, Ms. Ten Eyck has drawn upon her intuition and knowledge to build a body of work that celebrates the inherent beauty of Texas, the culture of its people, and the sacred path of water, pioneering contemporary regionalism in the American Southwest. Her work illustrates the capacity for place-based landscape architecture to address pressing global issues such as climate, habitat, and water-quality protection, while also creating restorative outdoor environments that are infused with natural beauty, encourage social interaction, and foster human healing. This ethos is exemplified in the recently constructed 11.5-acre Campus Transformation Project for the University of Texas, El Paso, the world's first U.S. Green Building Council Sustainable Sites-certified project.
Ms. Ten Eyck received her B.L.A. from Texas Tech University. She became a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 2003 and is a registered landscape architect in Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Committed to advancing both landscape architectural practice and education, Ms. Ten Eyck has lectured at various conferences and institutions, including Stanford University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. She was the keynote speaker for the 2013 Washington State ASLA Conference, presented at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects in 2011, and presented most recently at the conference “Paisajismo en zonas aridas” in Santiago, Chile.
Statement: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander has achieved a beautiful lifetime of integrating nature into the city with her Modernist design ethos and long-lasting collaborations with other design colleagues. I, along with many others, am inspired by her achievements and her commitment to landscape architecture. I am proud to help fund this important prize that bears her name and that will help call attention to those who have achieved an exemplary body of work in the art and science of landscape architecture.