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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.


Millbrook Residence
Date: 2017
Location: Millbrook, NY
Project Team: Julia Watson
Client: Artur Walthur
Straddling the township line between Washington and Stanford in Dutchess County, Millbrook Estate is a 100-acre pastoral landscape that was once a dairy farm, adjacent to Millbrook Vineyards and Winery.
In a moment of stasis, arrested by several centuries of cultivation, we envision a release of the sublime. In an effort to contemporize the experience of the site, we harken to the philosophical inquiry of Edmund Burke who's 'Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) refers to the exhilarating experience of untamed nature, rather than that of mankind’s ability to control the natural world. Rather than being a reminder that humanity is not all-powerful, we recognize that transfer of energy in nature, we afford a platform of exchange and awaken to nature’s profound ability to transform site and self. A single narrative of rewilding, awakening the site and the self to nature, which can be akin to a spiritual experience, will be afforded to both.








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