Ken Smith is a New York City-based landscape architect. His interests include landscape design of varying scale with a particular emphasis on projects which explore the symbolic content and expressive power of landscape as an art form. He is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, with vision and meaning as a way of improving the quality of urban life. Smith is a graduate of Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Artist Statement: Because much of my practice is in highly urban areas, I have become fascinated with the concept of the garden container. Much urban landscape is containerized ranging from window boxes, potted terrace plants, to roof gardens. Even much of what we often think of as landscape on "real ground," such as linear tree planting strips with imported structural soils, is essentially contained. This coupled with the general idea of gardens as "containers of ideas" leads me to address the idea of container. A number of my recent gardens have focused on the common dumpster as a garden container. Here the idea is extended by using a common dump truck as a garden site.