TATIANA NOZAKI is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Calgary. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, on the ancestral homelands of Tupiniquim and Guarani peoples, she approaches design as a relational practice, asking how stories, histories, and relationships to place can expand how landscapes are imagined, made, and inhabited.

 

Her research positions material literacy as both a technical and ethical inquiry, understanding materials as carriers of land relations, labor, and cultural memory. Through design research, fieldwork, and fabrication, she examines how practices of making can cultivate ecological reciprocity and contribute to more regenerative collective futures across communities, species, and generations. 

 

Grounded in this approach is a belief that “landscapes are not only designed; they are inherited, constructed, and continually remade through relationships among people, materials, and land. My work asks what responsibilities emerge through acts of making.”

 

Before joining SAPL, Tatiana taught landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia and practiced at HAPA Collaborative, contributing to award-winning public realm projects. Working across scholarship, teaching, and practice, she approaches construction, fabrication, and craft not simply as technical skills, but as ways of knowing that connect relationships to place with broader responsibilities of planetary care.