She also studied acting at the Yale School of Drama[2] and took graduate philosophy courses at the University of Edinburgh.

After, she moved to Philadelphia to study piano under Edith Braun at the Curtis Institute of Music.

[3] She received a MA in landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, studying with Ian McHarg, Roberto Burle Marx, M. Paul Friedberg, and others.

[4] After graduating from University of Pennsylvania, she joined the landscape architecture firm of George Patton.

Together, they designed the Kimbell Art Museum and Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City.