Thomas L. Woltz, CLA, ASLA

Principal and co-owner
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Lecture Title: Abundant Systems: Working landscapes from the city to the farm

Monday, October 10, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Stanley White Lecture Series (Landscape Architecture)

Thomas Woltz is a principal and co-owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, a 30-person design practice with offices in New York City and Charlottesville VA. Woltz holds masters degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia where he taught part-time for 14 years. NBW has designed a broad array of public and private projects including parks, botanic gardens and zoos, academic and corporate campuses, and town planning. Woltz recently developed the Conservation Agriculture Studio around a family of projects that employs the sensibilities of contemporary landscape architecture to integrate sustainable agriculture with best management practices for conservation of wildlife and natural resources.

The work of the office expresses the firm’s values of ecological stewardship through both narrative and constructed places. These constructions (wetlands, gardens, habitats for threatened animals, stormwater management systems, and agricultural infrastructure) perform critical ecological functions in a designed landscape that reveals the process of construction rather than masking it through naturalization. Both the construction and the narrative seek to connect people to the places they live as a way to inspire greater stewardship.