Alison Orellana Malouf is a landscape architect, painter, and environmental artist. Currently she designs healing spas and analyzes the ability of bioswales to dissipate drunk drivers.
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EDUCATION
Master of Landscape Architecture | Harvard University Graduate School of Design | June 2018
Bachelor of Science in Architecture | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | June 2014
Full Time Non-Degree Student | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 2011-2012
EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS / PUBLICATIONS
2023
Woodland Residency, Schloss Hollenegg for Design and Dutch Invertuals, Hollenegg, AT
2022
JAY DAY, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK
2020
Flat Files, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Best Mobile Innovation Supporting Emergency or Humanitarian Situations | 2020 Global Mobile Awards
- MapSwipe
2019
HATCH | East Safeway Arts District | San Francisco, CA
- Solo Exhibition
2017
Penny White Fellowship | Harvard Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA
Ninth Annual Harvard Student Art Show | Crossings Gallery | Allston, MA
Finalist in Social Good Category | Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards
- MapSwipe
2016
MapSwipe featured in the 2016 Nominet Trust 100
Community Service Fellowship | Harvard Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA
Citation | Residential Architect Design Awards | Ithaca, NY
- Work on Mask House for WOJR
2015
Patricia Algara, Sutter Wehmeier, Alison Malouf, Natalie Martell, Megan Stevens, “BEE SAFE,” World Landscape Architecture Magazine, WLA 21 | Research + Policy, pp. 45-48
- Article on BEE SAFE research project written on behalf of BASE Landscape Architecture
Mirko Ilic, Steven Heller, Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2015
- Poster design for the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble's Fall 2014 production of Othello included
Dean's Merit Scholarship | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA
Finalist | Boston Living with Water Competition | Boston, MA
- Project Manager of team at Paul Lukez Architecture
2014
Best Animation | 16th Annual CMS Media Spectacle | Boston, MA
Animation Runner-Up | 16th Annual CMS Media Spectacle | Boston, MA
Honorable Mention | Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts | Boston, MA
Schnitzer Prize Exhibition | Boston, MA
2013
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City | BSA Space | Boston, MA
- with Howeler + Yoon Architects
2011
SMFA Film and Animation Annual | Boston, MA
Boston Festival of Independent Games | Boston, MA
Building Below the Radar | Heights Arts | Cleveland, OH
- with Studio Techne Architects
Sculpture X | The Sculpture Center | Cleveland, OH
- curation
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Designer
Various Clients | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2021-Present
Design Associate
Munden Fry Landscape Associates | San Francisco, CA | 2018-2020
Graphic and technical production, concept design, and project management on residential, public, and large agricultural projects.
Penny White Fellow
Harvard GSD | San Francisco, CA | Summer 2017
Work on research and design of MapSwipe, a mobile app developed to enable fast satellite image classification on mobile devices, in addition to performing myriad other tasks needed for our 3-person development team to bring a complete mobile app from design to release.
Harvard GSD Community Service Fellow
The Missing Maps Project, MSF UK, HOT, TRC | San Francisco, CA | Summer 2016
Fieldwork and prototype fabrication to support investigation of how traditional landscape architectural elements such as planting, water features, and paving patterns might be applied to countersurveillance.
3D Printing Technical Assistant
Harvard GSD Fabrication Lab | Cambridge, MA | Fall 2015 - Present
Consultation on rapid prototyping process and file preparation, file review, operation and maintenance of 3D printing equipment.
Research Assistant
BASE Landscape Architecture | Berkeley, CA | Summer 2015
Research on policy and practice issues surrounding pesticides to support a talk at the ASLA 2015 National Conference. Design of graphics communicating this research and writing of an abstract that was published in WLA Magazine
Designer
Paul Lukez Architecture | Boston, MA | 2014 - 2015
Research, design of graphics and diagrams, permit and construction drawing, digital study modeling, and conceptual rendering for residential, institutional, and urban scale projects.
Architectural Intern
WOJR | Boston, MA | Spring 2014
Research, documentation, analysis, and drawing of a series of extra-architectural cultural artifacts - including but not limited to African tribal masks - as they related to architectural design projects.
Fabrication Intern
Howeler + Yoon Architecture | Boston, MA | Fall 2013
SKILLS
Art: 2D media, wood and metal working, mold making and casting, video production, animation (hand drawn, stop motion), digital fabrication (laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing)
Software: Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Rhino, Autodesk (AutoCAD, 3dsMax), Final Cut Pro, Dragonframe, some programming (Processing, HTML, CSS, MATLAB, Python)
Language: fluent English, good French, some Latin and Spanish, beginning Arabic, mangled Swahili
Master of Landscape Architecture | Harvard University Graduate School of Design | June 2018
Bachelor of Science in Architecture | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | June 2014
Full Time Non-Degree Student | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 2011-2012
EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS / PUBLICATIONS
2023
Woodland Residency, Schloss Hollenegg for Design and Dutch Invertuals, Hollenegg, AT
2022
JAY DAY, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK
2020
Flat Files, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Best Mobile Innovation Supporting Emergency or Humanitarian Situations | 2020 Global Mobile Awards
- MapSwipe
2019
HATCH | East Safeway Arts District | San Francisco, CA
- Solo Exhibition
2017
Penny White Fellowship | Harvard Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA
Ninth Annual Harvard Student Art Show | Crossings Gallery | Allston, MA
Finalist in Social Good Category | Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards
- MapSwipe
2016
MapSwipe featured in the 2016 Nominet Trust 100
Community Service Fellowship | Harvard Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA
Citation | Residential Architect Design Awards | Ithaca, NY
- Work on Mask House for WOJR
2015
Patricia Algara, Sutter Wehmeier, Alison Malouf, Natalie Martell, Megan Stevens, “BEE SAFE,” World Landscape Architecture Magazine, WLA 21 | Research + Policy, pp. 45-48
- Article on BEE SAFE research project written on behalf of BASE Landscape Architecture
Mirko Ilic, Steven Heller, Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2015
- Poster design for the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble's Fall 2014 production of Othello included
Dean's Merit Scholarship | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA
Finalist | Boston Living with Water Competition | Boston, MA
- Project Manager of team at Paul Lukez Architecture
2014
Best Animation | 16th Annual CMS Media Spectacle | Boston, MA
Animation Runner-Up | 16th Annual CMS Media Spectacle | Boston, MA
Honorable Mention | Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts | Boston, MA
Schnitzer Prize Exhibition | Boston, MA
2013
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City | BSA Space | Boston, MA
- with Howeler + Yoon Architects
2011
SMFA Film and Animation Annual | Boston, MA
Boston Festival of Independent Games | Boston, MA
Building Below the Radar | Heights Arts | Cleveland, OH
- with Studio Techne Architects
Sculpture X | The Sculpture Center | Cleveland, OH
- curation
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Designer
Various Clients | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2021-Present
Design Associate
Munden Fry Landscape Associates | San Francisco, CA | 2018-2020
Graphic and technical production, concept design, and project management on residential, public, and large agricultural projects.
Penny White Fellow
Harvard GSD | San Francisco, CA | Summer 2017
Work on research and design of MapSwipe, a mobile app developed to enable fast satellite image classification on mobile devices, in addition to performing myriad other tasks needed for our 3-person development team to bring a complete mobile app from design to release.
Harvard GSD Community Service Fellow
The Missing Maps Project, MSF UK, HOT, TRC | San Francisco, CA | Summer 2016
Fieldwork and prototype fabrication to support investigation of how traditional landscape architectural elements such as planting, water features, and paving patterns might be applied to countersurveillance.
3D Printing Technical Assistant
Harvard GSD Fabrication Lab | Cambridge, MA | Fall 2015 - Present
Consultation on rapid prototyping process and file preparation, file review, operation and maintenance of 3D printing equipment.
Research Assistant
BASE Landscape Architecture | Berkeley, CA | Summer 2015
Research on policy and practice issues surrounding pesticides to support a talk at the ASLA 2015 National Conference. Design of graphics communicating this research and writing of an abstract that was published in WLA Magazine
Designer
Paul Lukez Architecture | Boston, MA | 2014 - 2015
Research, design of graphics and diagrams, permit and construction drawing, digital study modeling, and conceptual rendering for residential, institutional, and urban scale projects.
Architectural Intern
WOJR | Boston, MA | Spring 2014
Research, documentation, analysis, and drawing of a series of extra-architectural cultural artifacts - including but not limited to African tribal masks - as they related to architectural design projects.
Fabrication Intern
Howeler + Yoon Architecture | Boston, MA | Fall 2013
SKILLS
Art: 2D media, wood and metal working, mold making and casting, video production, animation (hand drawn, stop motion), digital fabrication (laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing)
Software: Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Rhino, Autodesk (AutoCAD, 3dsMax), Final Cut Pro, Dragonframe, some programming (Processing, HTML, CSS, MATLAB, Python)
Language: fluent English, good French, some Latin and Spanish, beginning Arabic, mangled Swahili