Johanna Gibbons FLI RDI FRSA is a British landscape architect and founding partner of the practice J & L Gibbons. Her work focuses on urban greening, ecological networks, and the relationship between people and landscape.
Trained at Edinburgh College of Art under David Skinner, a disciple of Design with Nature author Ian McHarg [1]
In 1986 Johanna founded J&L Gibbons based in London, UK. [1] She is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and The Royal Society of Arts. [2]
She is a Research Partner of Urban Mind [3] and panel advisor to Historic England. [2] She has an international profile as a member of the International Scientific Committee for the World Forum on Urban Forests and as a design juror for Europan [4] and the Holcim Foundation [5] committed to sustainable design.
In 2019, she launched Landscape Learns a social enterprise founded by J & L Gibbons that provides cross-disciplinary and immersive landscape education.
As of November 2025, she has been elected as the next Master of the Royal Designers for Industry. [6] The first Landscape Architect to hold this role.