LAND40 Celebration

Lauren Stimson, FAAR, ASLA

Principal and Partner, STIMSON

Lauren Stimson is a landscape architect, Principal and Partner at STIMSON; a design studio comprised of landscape architects, planners and horticulturalists based in New England. She studied classical theater and geology at Bates College where she was a Benjamin E. Mays Scholar, and received a Masters in Landscape Architecture and a Master’s in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2021, her studio was recognized with the National Landscape Architecture Firm Award, for outstanding achievement within the profession of landscape architecture. She is the 2023/24 Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize Fellow and spent the spring of 2024 at the American Academy in Rome.

Jane Reed Ross, PLA, ASLA
Goodwyn Mills Cawood

Jane has worked on projects that create a sense of place and identity based on an ethical combination of function, art and the client’s needs.

Her passion and experience has led her to complete projects throughout the southeast as well as in Washington D.C. and Queensland, Australia. Her vision for an equitable and sustainable community has guided her to complete award winning civic spaces like including parks, trails and urban revitalizations,. Jane has worked on important placemaking projects such as Red Rock Trail Master Plan, Jefferson County; Rotary Trail, Birmingham; Lane Parke Mixed Use Development in Mountain Brook, Pepper Place, 2nd Avenue Streetscape in Birmingham, Birmingham Zoo Entrance Plaza and Event Lawn and numerous trail projects and campus work including projects at Auburn University, UAB and UNA.

Richard Roark, ASLA, AICP
OLIN

Richard’s work spans a range of scales and typologies, focused on expanding the civic capacity of the landscape. Projects such as the competition-winning design for Hunts Point under the Rebuild by Design initiative, Dilworth Park in Philadelphia, and a strategic plan for Detroit’s historic Eastern Market exemplify a practice focused on sustainable, economical and well-crafted public design. Richard is currently completing work for a waterfront pavilion at Sojourner Truth Park along the Hudson River, developing a sea level rise social and environmental justice plan for the communities of Caño Martín Peña and realizing an innovative flood mitigation plan for the NYCHA communities of Red Hook in Brooklyn. Richard serves on the board for Studio Ludo, an innovative play research non-profit, and regularly provides pro-bono design services through Philadelphia’s Community Design Collaborative.

Richard began his studies in landscape architecture at Auburn University, where he earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design and then a Master of Landscape Architecture. He first joined OLIN in 2001 upon receiving his Master of Community Planning. He has served as an invited guest juror at Arizona State University, Auburn University, Temple University and University of Pennsylvania, and is a past member of Auburn University’s Landscape Advisory Council.

David Hill, ASLA, LEED AP
HILLWORKS

David is a registered architect, registered landscape architect, founder of HILLWORKS, and Associate Professor in the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at Auburn University (not to mention a proud father of three). This rich relationship between education and practice offers a wide spectrum of opportunities for David to advance disciplinary research. Born and raised in a plant nursery in South Georgia, David developed a deep affinity for plants and an early admiration for the rich, working landscape of the south. After 15 years of experience, this fascination with cultural and productive landscapes continues to impact how David unpacks site histories and explores design opportunities.

Prior to founding HILLWORKS, David helped unearth post-industrial landscapes as an Associate, and later a Principal, of D.I.R.T studio where he managed projects such as Urban Outfitters Headquarters at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Hardberger Park in San Antonio Texas, the Historic Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and the Holy Cross Project in New Orleans Louisiana. David’s work through D.I.R.T. and HILLWORKS has received regional and national awards in design and research. David lectures regularly at universities, symposia, and conferences.

David graduated from Georgia Tech in Architecture and earned a Master in Landscape Architecture and Master in Architecture from the University of Virginia.