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Designer, activist, academic,
and author of Lo—TEK,
Design by Radical Indigenism.
A leading expert of Lo—TEK nature-based technologies for climate-resilience.
Her eponymously named studio brings creative and conceptual, interdisciplinary thinking to urban projects and corporate clients interested in systemic and sustainable change. Julia regularly teaches urban design at Harvard and Columbia University.


Bridgehampton Residence
Date: 2017 - 2018
Location: The Hamptons, NY
Project Team: Julia Watson
Client: Rashid Johnson
Press: Architecture Digest
Julia was the designer for the clearing and pathway through the private woodland in Bridgehampton, owned by contemporary African-American artist Rashid Johnson.
The site, located at the rear of the 6-acre forested property, was overgrown and impenetrable creating a dead zone; both visually and physically. The design envisioned ‘The Path’, a journey composed of various spaces that one can experience along its length that merge together amassing into a mental meditation composed of seven experiences; the earth, the sky, and five other distinct spaces that exist between them. The experiences include; the Collection, the Cleansing, the Pyramid, the Reflection, and the Listening Circle.









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