We are proud to announce that SCAPE is the recipient of the 2025 Landscape Architecture Firm Award. This year, with the theme "Beyond Boundaries," @nationalasla is highlighting how landscape architects break barriers—physical, cultural, and environmental—to shape a better future. For the past 20 years, SCAPE has carved a unique path through the field of landscape architecture. Today we are a robust practice with offices in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco and over 80 people, holding strong to our values of climate resilience, community action, and ecological regeneration. We are so grateful for this recognition of our work and our ethos.
See you in at this year's ASLA Conference in New Orleans! #ASLA2025
🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.
Maps and drawings can unlock stories of displacement, empowerment, regeneration, and community change. SCAPE had the privilege of supporting the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN, @lean_empowerment ) on their Environmental Justice Curriculum for Louisiana K-12 schools. The curriculum fills a crucial gap in youth environmental education, teaching the history and evolution of Louisiana’s profoundly altered and vulnerable landscape. Since 1986, LEAN has equipped residents with the tools to respond to Louisiana’s unique environmental challenges—this curriculum advances their larger mission of sharing environmental knowledge across the state.
The design team created an educational mapping exercise that investigates the geographic, economic, and social history of the Lower Mississippi River, and reflects on the resulting environmental justice legacies.
SCAPE’s Founder, Kate Orff, reflects on the project: “I got to know LEAN during the discovery and research phase of creating the book PETROCHEMICAL AMERICA (Aperture, 2012) with Richard Misrach, and later through shared communications, research and curriculum initiatives. LEAN’s positive impact has reverberated around the entire Gulf Coast. Their skills in careful listening, place-based analysis, and communication have consistently been translated into significant projects that are socially and environmentally meaningful, and that repair the ties between local economies, human life, and the natural processes that support it. The Environmental Justice Curriculum project is a bridge to the future.”
🔗 Support the curriculum and donate to this amazing organization at the link in our bio.
SCAPE is currently looking for self-motivated, inspired, and team-oriented interns to join our New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco offices. Our Fall internships will run from September 14th, 2026 to mid-to-late December.
⏰ Submissions are due by Sunday, May 31st, 2026 (11:59pm ET).
🔗 Apply at the link in our bio.
For SCAPE's annual SEED research grant program, Associate Alyson Demskie took us through 110 miles of the Pascagoula River Basin in a canoe. On repeated visits across seasons and flood levels, Alyson canoed, camped, gathered, and sketched. Her project, Field Theory, presents her findings: photos, artifacts, and drawings that begin to reveal the Pascagoula’s patterns and establish a framework for studying “the field.”
🔗 Read more about Alyson's project in this month's issue of @landarchmag in a beautiful writeup by Elaine Stokes, ASLA.
At the Jim Moran Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, SCAPE is hand-selecting stone for the reimagined campus landscape, a project rooted in community well-being and contextual public space.
Over the past year, the SCAPE team has identified, assessed, and curated oolite and coralstone pavers, blocks, and sculptural boulders that will define the character of the new outdoor spaces. The coralstone, embedded with fossilized coral imprints, will trace pathways across the campus, grounding the design in Florida's ancient regional geology. Asymmetric slabs set at irregular angles evoke the meditative stillness of a Japanese zen rock garden while being reinterpreted through a distinctly local lens. Sculptural oolite blocks and boulders were selected not just for form, but for their capacity to host plant material that will root and grow into the stone over time.
The full restorative landscape reflects the Jim Moran Foundation's decades-long commitment to supporting youth, families, and communities across Florida by investing in programs to support education, elder care, family strengthening, and transition living for at-risk youth and young adults.
Today in @fastcompany , Nate Berg writes about SCAPE and @gowanuscanalconservancy ’s Gowanus Lowlands Plan and the ongoing evolution of the Gowanus Canal from an industrial canal to a new civic landscape.
"Two recently opened projects exemplify the transformation underway along the Gowanus Canal. Both designed by the landscape architecture firm SCAPE and in line with a master plan it helped release in 2019, the projects are a preview of what it will look like when the Gowanus completes one of the most dramatic urban turnarounds in recent times."
The Lowlands plan, he writes, "set standards for how future development along the canal could contribute to its cleanup and restoration... Now, it is being used to help shape more than a dozen active development projects along the canal." 🔗 Read more at the link in our bio.
In Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's book What If We Get It Right?, SCAPE's Kate Orff joins Dr. Johnson and Bryan C. Lee Jr. for a conversation on the role of architecture and design in connecting humans to nature.
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures explores hopeful, positive climate futures through essays, interviews, poetry, and art, moving beyond despair to imagine a thriving world built on science, policy, culture, and justice. The heart of the book is 20 interviews with visionary farmers and financiers, activists and architects, producers and policy wonks, and others showing us the way forward, offering answers to the title question.
The book is now out in paperback with a fresh new look, updated stats, new footnotes, and four new interviews. Order via @bookshop_org or your local bookstore 🌍
Join SCAPE at this year's Jane's Walk festival—an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations taking place all over the world. We'll be leading tours of two SCAPE projects in New York City:
"Where History and Ecology Meet: Daylighting Flushing Creek"
The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Resiliency Study reimagines the park as both a cherished recreational destination and a vital piece of climate resilience infrastructure. On the walking tour through the park, learn how the park is being reimagined through daylighting as a more resilient destination.
🗓️ Saturday, May 2 ⏰ 11am-12:30pm 🎤 Senior Associate Linh Pham and Associate Danny Berdichevsky
"The Gowanus Lowlands: From Industrial Canal to New Civic Landscape" Building on decades of city, state, and federal planning efforts, the Gowanus Lowlands is a community-based vision for a restored public realm centered around Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. On the tour, visit recently completed public landscapes, and learn about the ecological future of the canal.
🗓️ Friday, May 1 ⏰ 1-2:30pm 🎤 Design Principal Gena Wirth, with Andrea Parker from @gowanuscanalconservancy and Sagi Golan from @nycplanning
🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.
SCAPE is hiring!
Landscape Designer/Landscape Architect (NYC): SCAPE is currently seeking technically focused landscape designers or landscape architects to join our team in New York City and support our built-work projects. Ideal candidates should have a minimum of 3-8 years' experience in the landscape architecture field.
⏰ Applications are due on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Open Interest (All Offices): SCAPE invites motivated design professionals to submit an application to convey interest in future opportunities with our firm. While SCAPE does not always have active job listings, we constantly aspire to connect with like-minded professionals to build our network and proactively identify talent that aligns with our firm’s mission and ethos.
⏰ Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we will schedule informational interviews with candidates of interest. Please note that this is not reflective of an active position.
🔗 Apply at the link in our bio.
In honor of World Landscape Architecture Month, we’re taking over @ga_asla ’s account. Swipe to learn about SCAPE’s work along the Chattahoochee River in Georgia 🚣
Happy Spring from the Hudson Valley 🌼
This residential landscape perched above the Hudson River blends the Hudson Valley’s legacy of art and environmentalism into a restorative, regenerative landscape that increases biodiversity, improves water quality, and captures carbon. SCAPE’s design highlights panoramic views with a mixed native meadow cascading downhill towards a dramatic bend in the river.
We worked to restore 11 acres of open woodland and grassland habitats, locate outdoor sculptures, and repair historic stone walls—with a special focus on revealing rocky outcrops beneath the surface and embedding textures of local stone and reclaimed wood in the ground plane. An extensive woodland trail system weaves through the beech forests, meadows, and rocky slopes of the site, taking pause in immersive woodland rooms that unlock unique moments of rest and discovery.
SCAPE Founder Kate Orff met with Emma B. Jones (@emmab.jones ) for Arkitektur Magazine (@tidskriftenarkitektur ) — Sweden's leading architecture publication. Featured in their "Natur-likt" (Nature-like) edition, Kate talks all things SCAPE: why landscape architecture has to be about more than design, oyster reefs as living infrastructure, river sediment, coastal resilience, and the false divide between wild and urban nature.
🔗 Read the full interview at the link in our bio.
