Rebecca Krinke is a landscape architect, sculptor, and associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota. Before joining the Minnesota faculty, she taught studios at the Harvard Design School and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her research and practice focus on contemplative and commemorative space. Recent projects include: Forest Transformation, an installation at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, and the design of four outdoor courtyards at Rapson Hall on the University of Minnesota campus (with John Roloff, artist). She is the editor of the book Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation, forthcoming 2005. Krinke’s current sculpture explores themes of embodiment and disembodiment; these ideas are informing a current research/writing project on the body and landscape.