Liz Van Dyke —
Architecture Design
Liz Van Dyke is an architecture designer and researcher working across architecture and landscape. Her work examines landscape memory, material histories, and the ways sites register environmental transformation over time. She holds an MLA I AP from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she received the Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award to conduct independent research on landscape, heritage, and material culture in Greece and the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, and has taught architecture and design as adjunct faculty at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. She founded Open Haven Studio in 2026, and is currently based in New York City.

lizpvandyke@gmail.com
ABSTRACTION AND EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION
We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.)

- Icebox Map
- The time that alligator ate that fish
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When the Yongzheng Emperor found that weird dust bunny under his throne
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The great earthquake of Alexandria
- The invention of expectation in literature
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When the heaviest cacao fruit fell in Takalik Abaj
- Animesh eats his first Fly Agaric mushroom