Jolie B. Kaytes
Associate Professor
(WSU faculty member since 2002)
Areas of Interest
- Landscape representation
- Regenerative design
- Landscape and language
Educational Background
- Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
- Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
- Bachelor of Science, Conservation and Resources Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Work Experience
- Visiting Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Colorado, Denver
- Instructor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
- Graphic Designer, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., Miami, FL
- Environmental Consultant, Miami, FL and San Francisco, CA
- Field Botanist, US Forest Service, Groveland, CA
- Field Ecologist, US Department of Interior, Yosemite, CA
Current Graduate Students
- Tammy Parker, MSLA candidate (Chair)
- Ryan Anderson, MSLA candidate (Chair)
- Carina Borsch, MSLA candidate, (Chair)
- Linjun Yang, MSLA candidate
- Mason Schaffer, MSLA candidate
- Linda Ruth Klein, Ph.D. candidate
Currently Teaching
- LA 327 - Theory in Landscape Architecture
- LA 362 - Network Neighborhood: Designing for Connectivity and Exchange (Junior Design)
- LA 380 - Occupying Ecologies
- LA 520 - The Northern Rocky Mountain Regional Landscape
- LA521 - Cultural Interpretations of the Regional Landscape
Selected Publications
Kaytes, J. 2009. Capacity (3 poems). Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 22.
Kaytes, J. 2009. Dirty Words. Forthcoming chapter in Process: Landscape and Text, editors C. Brace and A. Johns-Putra. Rodopi: New York.
Kaytes, J. 2008. Re Root. Paper presentation, Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World, June 19-22, 2008, Eugene, Oregon.
Kaytes, J. 2008. Gridshifter. Piece in group show Wish You Were Here, San Francisco, California
Kaytes, J. and S. DiRosa. 2007. Gathering Dust: Sediment/Sentiment. Paper/artists’ presentation, Southeastern College Art Conference, October 17-20, 2007, Charleston, West Virginia.
Kaytes, J. 2007. Landlines: Direct connect. Paper presentation, Written Landscape Symposium, July 7-8, 2007, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Kaytes, J. 2007. "Home" and "Journey" (poems). Drain Magazine 8, April 2007. http:// drainmag.com/.
Kaytes, J. 2005. Controlling confusion, confusing control: Garden as experiment. In Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Congress, August 17-20, 2005, Winnipeg, Canada.
Kaytes, J. 2005. GeoTropes: Memory and Surface (two poems).
Landscape Journal (24)1: 69.
Kaytes, J. 2005. Local matters: Teaching ecology as experience. Paper presentation at the annual conference for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, September 20-24, 2005, Athens, Georgia.
Office: Johnson Hall C21
Phone: 509.335.7331
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