Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Katie Smithson is a seasoned designer with diverse experience in landscape architecture and motion graphics. Since February 2019, Katie has worked as a Designer at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Concurrently, since July 2014, Katie has been involved with Man vs Magnet as a Designer, Animator, and Producer, creating engaging digital video content for a wide range of clients. Prior roles include Architectural Designer at Davis & Floyd, Inc. and Landscape Architectural Designer at DesignWorks LC, contributing to projects from 2007 to 2014. Katie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia, complemented by a course at the National Outdoor Leadership School in 2003.
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Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Founded in 1985, Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is a 40-person landscape architecture firm with offices in Charlottesville Virginia and New York City. Committed to education and conservation, the firm has been involved in a broad array of public and private projects including botanic gardens and zoos, public parks, private gardens and estates, academic institutions, corporate campuses, and town planning. The firm actively seeks this diversity of project scales and types to cultivate the creativity of the professional staff. The varied backgrounds of the staff include studies in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, anthropology, biology, economics, ecology, zoology, horticulture, art, art history, and architectural history. This broad knowledge base supports the firm’s collective creativity and ability to respond to diverse client needs. The firm’s work has garnered over 80 national and regional awards and has been widely published. Current projects include Hudson Yards in Manhattan (NY), Memorial Park in Houston (TX), Centennial Park in Nashville (TN), Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Cornwall Park in Auckland (New Zealand), Devonian Botanic Garden in Edmonton (Canada), and Brooklyn Navy Yard Naval Hospital Cemetery Memorial Landscape (NY). The work of the firm has been featured in numerous national and international publications and is the subject of a recently released monograph published by Princeton Architectural Press.