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Section 3<br />
Stoss Landscape Urbanism<br />
Stoss Landscape Urbanism<br />
Landscape Architects for the Corning Reserve Plan<br />
Stoss is a Boston-based, collaborative design and planning studio that works at the<br />
intersection of landscape architecture, urban design, and planning—in an emerging field<br />
known as landscape urbanism. This field implicates sites and projects in broader ecological,<br />
infrastructural, and socio-cultural systems and dynamics, thereby making them more<br />
environmentally, urbanistically, and economically rich and viable over time. While many other<br />
practices have since taken on landscape infrastructure and landscape urbanism as part of<br />
their agenda, Stoss was instrumental as one of the first studios to bring this emerging theory<br />
into professional practice, with real clients, real sites, real budgets, and real people. For<br />
this, we were recognized with the 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape<br />
Architecture.<br />
Founded in 2000, Stoss traces its roots to 1995 with the design and exhibition of a number<br />
of landscape urbanism projects, early studies in strategic framework planning, brownfields<br />
recovery, stormwater harvesting, and landscapes as infrastructure. We value research and<br />
innovation, but we understand the critical need to be BOTH pragmatic AND inventive—<br />
particularly for work in the public realm.<br />
Stoss is an intentionally small studio; we bring a high level of energy and commitment to each<br />
project. We have the ability, time, and motivation to work closely with clients, teams, and<br />
stakeholders to fully understand and develop individual project goals and demands, thereby<br />
embarking on a process of design and discovery that is both responsive and catalytic.<br />
We have been lucky enough to be recognized for our work nationally and internationally<br />
for many years now—both by leading design journals (Progressive Architecture Award and<br />
Topos International Landscape Award) and by place-based organizations (Top Honor Award<br />
for Waterfront Design by the Waterfront Center). We have also won numerous awards from<br />
organizations such as the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Boston Society of<br />
Architects, and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, for both built and speculative<br />
projects.<br />
Project Team:<br />
Chris Reed, Principal<br />
cr@stoss.net<br />
Scott Bishop, Associate Principal<br />
sb@stoss.net<br />
Erik Prince, Associate<br />
ep@stoss.net<br />
Amy Whitesides, Designer<br />
aw@stoss.net<br />
Stoss Landscape Urbanism<br />
423 W Broadway #304<br />
Boston, MA 02127 USA<br />
T 617 464 1140<br />
F 617 464 1142