Building Time
Creating climate-responsive landscape architecture, art and urban design grounded in ecological systems, public use, and long-term performance
Lesia
Mokrycke
MLA, MFA, BFA
Lesia Mokrycke is the founder of Tropos, a multidisciplinary landscape studio based in Hamilton. She is recognized as a contemporary voice for art and landscape architecture in Canada and is known for her creative, conceptual, and contemplative approach to shaping distinctive landscapes.
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Lesia leads collaborative urban design, restoration, and environmental art processes that address climate adaptation in public space. Her landscape architectural work focuses on producing innovative stormwater management and site restoration projects at a range of scales. She works on both small and large sites, producing site plans, details, and specifications that integrate natural systems, environmental infrastructure, and urban forests with public use, ecological performance, and human experience.
She works extensively with local municipalities to develop educational content that advances public knowledge, and is the recipient of several awards including two grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and an Education in Heritage award from the Hamilton Natural Heritage Committee for her work titled, Building Conservation Networks. She lectures widely and is recognized for her contributions to the conservation, restoration and preservation of Hamilton's natural heritage.
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EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Lesia brings a wealth of knowledge from twenty years of experience as a public artist across the United States, Canada and Europe to each landscape architectural project she undertakes. She is an instructor at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge, where she has developed curriculum in systems thinking and teaches landscape architecture in the School of Architecture. She has been an Artist in Residence at Halls Island, Haliburton, ON; the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
Lesia holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Art from the Weitzman Design School at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a combined Bachelor of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, where she studied painting, sculpture, comparative literature, and film, graduating with honours.
2023 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization
2022 Halls Island, Haliburton, ON; August
2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation2014 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB; March
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; November
2024 Education in Heritage Award;
Hamilton Natural Heritage Committee
2019 Christopher Lyon Memorial Scholarship, studio art;
University of Pennsylvania
2015 Albert F. Schenck-Henry Gillette Woodman Award,
landscape design; University of Pennsylvania
2009 J. Henry Schiedt Travel Scholarship; Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts
2009 Faculty Award, Pennsylvania Academy
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2008 Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize, painting;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2007 Sylvia G. Wexler Memorial Award, painting;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2006 Rambourger Prize, draftsmanship;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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