Charles Morris Anderson is a landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects,He is a Principal of the Phoenix-based landscape architecture firm,Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture,which is the continuation of his practice of the Seattle-based firm Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture.
Peter Walker is an American landscape architect and the founder of PWP Landscape Architecture.
Laurie Olin is an American landscape architect. He has worked on landscape design projects at diverse scales,from private residential gardens to public parks and corporate/museum campus plans.
Michael Robert Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States,Canada,Korea,and France,including public parks,college campuses,sculpture gardens,city courtyards,corporate landscapes,private gardens,and urban master plans.
Simon Asher Levin is an American ecologist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological diversities.
Grant Richard Jones is an American landscape architect,poet,and founding principal of the Seattle firm Jones &Jones Architects,Landscape Architects and Planners. In more than four decades of practice,his work in ecological design has garnered widespread recognition for its broad-based and singular approach,one that is centered on giving voice to the land and its communities. Called the “poet laureate of landscape architecture”Jones's poetry informs his designs.
Richard J. Hobbs FAA,is a distinguished professor,ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and ecologist at the University of Western Australia,Perth,Australia. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Highly-Cited author who has written extensively in the areas of vegetation dynamics and management,ecosystem fragmentation,ecosystem rehabilitation and restoration,landscape ecology,and conservation biology. Current research focuses on managing ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.
Herbert Dreiseitl is a sculptor,artist,landscape architect and interdisciplinary urban planner. He founded the firm Atelier Dreiseitl in 1980 with a vision to develop liveable cities inspired by a deep understanding of water. In 2013,the studio was acquired by the Danish-based international consultancy group and continued under the name Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl. As of 2023,Dreiseitl's office is located in Überlingen,Germany,still a local affiliate of Ramboll. He has taught courses at the National University of Singapore and at Harvard University.
Kongjian Yu,is a landscape architect and urbanist,writer and educator,commonly credited with the invention of Sponge City concept,and winner of the International Federation of Landscape Architects’Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in 2020. Received his Doctor of Design Degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995,Doctor Honoris Causa from Sapienza University of Rome in 2017 and Honorary Doctorate from Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2019,Yu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Matthew Louis Urbanski is an American landscape architect. He has planned and designed landscapes in the United States,Canada,and France,including waterfronts,parks,college campuses,sculpture gardens,and private gardens. Collaborating with Michael Van Valkenburgh,he was a lead designer of many projects in the Northeastern United States,including Brooklyn Bridge Park,Alumnae Valley at Wellesley College,Allegheny Riverfront Park,and Teardrop Park. In addition to his work as a designer,Urbanski is a co-owner of a native plants nursery in New Jersey.
Kate Orff is an American landscape architect. She is the founding principal of SCAPE,a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She is also the director the Urban Design Program (MSAUD) at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture,Planning and Preservation and co-director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes. Orff is the first landscape architect to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
William A. Reiners is an American ecologist. He was born in Chicago,Illinois. Reiners attended Knox College and Rutgers University. At the latter,he was a student of Murray F. Buell.
Andrea Cochran is an American landscape architect based in San Francisco. She is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and one of seven designer women featured in the 2012 documentary Women in the Dirt.
Anne Whiston Spirn is an American landscape architect,photographer and author. Her work promotes community-oriented spaces that are functional,sustainable,meaningful,and artful. Spirn is Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She is the 2001 winner of the International Cosmos Prize.
W Architecture &Landscape Architecture is an international architecture and landscape architecture firm based in Brooklyn,New York City. Founded in 1999 by Barbara E. Wilks,the firm is primarily known for its design of major waterfront reclamation projects and collaborative repurposing of public spaces. W Architecture has received substantial coverage in the media for the Edge Park in Williamsburg,Brooklyn;a redesign of the West Harlem waterfront;restoration of St. Patrick's Island in Calgary;and the recent Plaza 33 Madison Square Garden adjacency.
Edmund David Hollander is an American landscape architect and educator. A New York City native,he is the president of Hollander Design Landscape Architects,a New York-based firm known for environmental planning,landscape design and horticulture. The firm provides services to residential,commercial and civic clients.
Herbert R. Schaal is an American landscape architect,educator,and firm leader notable for the broad range and diversity of his projects,including regional studies,national parks,corporate and university campuses,site planning,botanical gardens,downtowns,highways,cemeteries,and public and private gardens. Schaal is one of the first landscape architects to design children's gardens,beginning in the 1990s with Gateway Elementary,Gateway Middle,and Gateway Michael Elementary school grounds in St. Louis,Missouri,the Hershey Children's Garden at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens,and Red Butte Garden and Arboretum.
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) is an American landscape architecture firm based in New York,Charlottesville,and Houston,founded in 1985 by Warren T. Byrd Jr.,and Susan Nelson,and led by Thomas Woltz.
Shahid Naeem is an ecologist and conservation biologist and is a Lenfest Distinguished professor and chair in the Department of Ecology,Evolution,and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. Naeem is the author of Biodiversity,Ecosystem Functioning,and Human Well-Being,and has published over 100 scientific articles.
Steward T. A. Pickett is an American plant ecologist and a distinguished senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Pickett is the recipient of the 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for "incorporating the spatial dimension into ecosystem research,in the sense of landscape and its multiple scales,and bringing it to bear in the management of coupled human-natural systems",as well the Ecologist Society of America's 2021 Eminent Ecologist Award.
