Landscape Architect WATANABE, Mio
Photo：Watanabe, Mio
- Department
- Graduate School/Arts Studies
- Position
- Professor
- Specialization
- Landscape Design
- Degrees Earned
- Master of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Master of Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania - Affiliated Academic
Arganizations - Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
- Profile
- Mio Watanabe is a Founder and CEO of Mio Watanabe Design Office, LLC., based in Tokyo Japan. Prior to establishing the company, Mio worked for Nihon Sekkei, inc. as a Landscape Architect, SOM in New York Office, as an Architectural Professional, and SWA Group in Los Angeles as a Landscape Designer. Educated in both architecture and landscape architecture, Mio brings attention to design creativity, detailing and construction implementation. Her work is mainly contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales. Mio earned her Master of Landscape Architecture degree and Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a registered landscape architect and holds SITES Accredited Professional. She is a lecturer of Kyoto University of Art and Design since 2019.
- Message
- The approach to spatial design in landscape architecture has a higher degree of freedom compared to other fields such as architecture and civil engineering, making it prone to diffusion, and the essence of it may be challenging to discern. I hope that through the course, we can learn together the distinctive design approaches specific to landscape design.
- Works
- Web Site
- https://www.mw-design.info
