Adam Molinski

EDUCATION
Master of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Bachelor of Science in Film, Boston University, 2010

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Landscape Architect (PLA)
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Adam Molinski, PLA, ASLA, is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. He teaches design studios and courses focused on dynamic systems, design process and living materials. He is a licensed landscape architect and has worked across the disciplines of art, film, architecture and landscape architecture for over ten years. He has worked on both public and private projects, across a variety of scales in California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Mexico, South Korea and China. Most recently, he worked for Hargreaves Jones in New York City on large-scale public projects including as project manager on the 5.7 acre Carpenter Park in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

He was a 2024 artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery, where he and a collaborator spent a year conducting meditative walks with the public using devices and exercises they created to disrupt habitual ways of seeing. The walks aimed to activate within participants a multisensory awareness of the landscape, revealing how scent, touch and sound can evoke memory and deepen spatial perception. This project culminated in an exhibition at Mount Auburn’s Bigelow Chapel titled Sensing Mount Auburn: A Landscape in Motion that transformed the chapel into an abstract multi-sensory experience of the cemetery landscape over the course of a year.

He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in Film from Boston University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Molinski's research and creative work focus on three main themes: the lived experience of the landscape, the physical act of altering the environment and design as projective process for questioning. With his background in film and other disciplines, his research looks to expand the design process of landscape architecture to become more inherently dynamic and multisensory by investigating the creative processes of adjacent disciplines like fashion, film, sculpture, music and the culinary arts in an attempt to develop new processes and tools for perceiving, conceiving and altering landscapes.