studio VISIT is a creative practice for land-based research, strategy, and design.
Melody Stein is a landscape architect, writer, and artist. She is the founder of studio VISIT and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Pratt Institute.
In her career, Melody has worked with landscape architecture firms including Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, SWA Group, and Inside Outside on a variety of public and private projects across scales. She holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University. Melody is a licensed Landscape Architect in the State of Connecticut.
Originally from rural Northern California, Melody’s love of land and place emerged from the rocky beaches of the Pacific Ocean, ancient redwood forests, and expansive agricultural landscapes of her hometown.
Collaborators
Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA)
Cornell University
Design Office of Global Cities
Flourish Lab
Homa Studio
La Mama Galleria
McGill University
NATURA
NEW INC
Pratt Institute
T Magazine – The New York Times
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Urban Soils Institute
Wedge Ceramics
Worthless Studios
This 2-day long session focused on experiential, materially grounded approaches to scenario building at NATURA’s Worldviews Workshop. Participants explored nature-based solutions to urban lighting challenges through collaborative artifact and scene-making.
Melody was invited as a featured guest critic to the year-end review of the innaugural year of landscape architecture at Pratt Institute.
Demo2023 Announced
DEMO is a new festival created by NEW INC and presented by the New Museum. Open to the public for the first time, DEMO2023 will take place over three days. Melody’s project, Phase 01: Swamp Park, will be featured in a show at La Mama Galleria in downtown manhattan