Paula Meijerink is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and teachs primarily in the core design studio sequence in landscape architecture.

Originally from the Netherlands, Meijerink is founding principal of WANTED, a small design firm in the Boston area. She has lectured and published internationally and has taught at the GSD since 1996 as Design Critic. Meijerink has a healthy appetite for political subjects, such as the paradoxical nature of our asphalt universe, the liberated quality of the roof deck landscape, and the role of wild nature in our daily lives. Her interest in the asphalt landscape is expressed in her provocative 2003 lecture at the GSD entitled “Asphalt Sucks” and in her winning entry in the design competition for the Métis International Garden Festival 2003 in Quebec, which has been described as the highlight of the festival. Her designs and competition entries have been cited for numerous other awards as well. Her office is currently working on a roof deck design for a 700-unit housing tower in Miami and a masterplan for a development near Shanghai, and recently won a prize in the competition for a plaza in Caracas, Venezuela. Meijerink says that her favorite cities are Los Angeles, Caracas, Mexico City, and Tokyo and her favorite landscapes are White Sands, Parc Lafontaine in Montreal, the Grand Canyon, and the Royal Palace forecourt in Tokyo.

Meijerink received her BLA from the International Agricultural School Larenstein in Boskoop, The Netherlands and her MLA from the GSD.