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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

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