Lara Mehling

Lara Mehling

Doctoral Student

Lara Mehling has been conducting research on the morphology of floral forms at the Chair of Christophe Girot since receiving the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) Department of Landscape Architecture. After completing her Master degree there in 2015, Lara joined the Institute of Landscape Architecture at the ETH Zurich as a research associate, teaching as well as editing the publication series Pamphlet. More recently, she has pursued the topic of landscape ornament through installations, exhibitions, and workshops through the design/research platform After Apricots, which she co-founded in Zurich and Istanbul in 2017. Lara has also worked as a landscape architect at Studio Vulkan, and a trainee at Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten. She is currently writing her dissertation “Turkey Red: Ottoman Textiles at the Root of the Parterre de Broderie.”