2022 Class of Fellows, Joan Floura, Maryland Chapter

Floura Teeter Landscape Architects, Baltimore, Maryland
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Maryland Chapter Category: Leadership/Management

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Maryland Chapter Category: Leadership/Management

Joan Floura has furthered the profession and the crucial role of landscape architects within the transportation sector with her work on large-scale infrastructure, heavy construction, and transportation projects, which are historically engineer-driven and resistant to design thinking. Joan's work encompasses millions of square feet of outdoor recreation areas, roadway improvements, and transit system hubs, including work on suburban Maryland's $1+ billion Intercounty Connector (an 18.8-mile toll road) and Purple Line (a 16-mile light-rail project). Founded more than 20 years ago, Joan's award-winning, woman-owned firm is leading efforts to infuse climate-conscious strategies into public projects throughout the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. Her leadership also promotes women and minorities throughout the profession. As an active alumna of North Dakota State University, she was instrumental in ensuring the landscape architecture department gained status as an independent entity during a program transition. Her ongoing volunteerism in community and nonprofit projects brings together professional education with public service, deepening future professionals' awareness of the value of community insight in landscape design. Since 2014, her firm's "Community Grows Here" initiative has provided design services and volunteer workdays to nonprofits in the Baltimore area. Joan's influence and impact in many different aspects of landscape architecture reach beyond Maryland borders to propel the profession into the future.