Firm: Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, NYC
ASLA Chapter: New York
Category: Works

During her 30-year career, Laura Starr has exhibited sustained excellence. She's received 17 design awards in two decades. Her work across New York City has transformed daily experiences and revitalized landmarks synonymous with that city. She balances site ecology, aesthetics and lived experience, be it major parks, pocket plazas, cultural institutions, individual residences or major infrastructure works. Her designs invite visitors on a journey where quotidian urban reality falls away to reveal oases for the senses and the mind. To use her words, they make density livable. Through her lectures, panelist appearances, professional leadership, project work and visionary contributions to resiliency, she consistently advocates for evocative landscape solutions that enhance city life even as they accommodate the many functions of urban space.