"American architect Jeanne Gang leads Studio Gang, an international architecture and urban design practice based in Chicago, with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Named one of TIME magazine's most influential people, and renowned for projects that connect people with each other and their environment, her work includes the new Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History and the upcoming U.S. Embassy in Brazil. The first landscape architect to receive the MacArthur Foundation's ""Genius"" Grant in 2017, Kate Orff leads SCAPE-a landscape architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Internationally recognised as a leading expert on climate adaptive and socially engaging landscapes, Orff has authored three books and completed a wide variety of projects across the U.S."