Holly Getch Clarke teaches primarily in the landscape architecture core studio sequence, while also offering advanced interdisciplinary studies in landscape representation. She also teaches the seminar Critical Perspectives: Perspectival Representation in the Process of Landscape Architecture Design and the workshop Studies in Landscape Representation. She studied art history at Princeton University (BA, summa cum laude, 1982) and at The Johns Hopkins University (MA 1984) before beginning her studies in architecture. In 1991 she received an MArch with distinction in from the GSD, where she explored her interest in drawing conventions and landscape architectural history/theory, in addition to design studies.

"Chiltonville" (detail), graphite 2000

Upon graduation Clarke was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal for general excellence in architecture and the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship. In connection with this award, she lived in Berlin, Germany for two years where she investigated issues of representation in the architectural production of K.F. Schinkel (1781-1841). This research identified the operation of marginalized representational techniques, such as Pompeiian wall painting, the "picturesque," and theatre set design, in the conception of certain architectural projects, suggesting a complexity to Schinkel's work beyond Neoclassicism. Her current theoretical research examines, through critical analysis and drawing applications, issues of "perspectival representation" in the process of landscape architectural design. Specifically, she is in the process of investigating definitions of "perspectival representation," "Land-scopic Regimes" peculiar to landscape design, that foreground emergent and potential spatialities of interstitial relationships.

Clarke's architectural design practice, 2C Design Studio, Inc., of which she is co-partner, focuses on site specific interventions at the various scales of furniture design and construction, residential and landscape design.