Landscape Architects in the Expanded Field: Lessons from Working with Infrastructure - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Scott Jordan is a Principal at Civitas, a Denver based landscape architecture and urban design firm. With over 24 years of professional experience, Scott has led the firm's most complex and challenging projects across North America. Having spent his career engaging in the transformation of public realm spaces in urban cities, he has led multifaceted project teams with a variety of multi-agency client groups. His collaborative spirit is best embodied by his belief that it does not matter where an idea comes from, what matters most is that it is the best idea for the given problem.

Anya Domlesky is an urban designer and landscape architect, currently the Director of Research at SWA Group. She runs XL Lab, the firm’s innovation lab undertaking practice-based research. The lab explores near future conditions in the built environment, performs analyses of design performance, experiments with new technologies to create tools for the field, and does topical investigations that address emerging complexities and unprecedented challenges. As a designer, she has worked largely on issues around urbanization, coasts, and water. She holds an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an M.Arch II from McGill University.

Trevor's work focuses on transformative landscapes, integrating cultural, technological, and ecological frameworks to enhance social life through design. With over 20 years in practice and academia—over a decade at OLIN—he brings an artistic and immersive approach to projects like Yale’s LEED Platinum forestry school, Denver’s 16th Street Mall revitalization, the Los Angeles Convention Center, and Manhattan’s Pier 26. Trevor has taught at the University of Tennessee, UPenn, and IIT. As an artist, his WindNest installation, part of the award-winning SEE MONSTER, explored renewable energy. He has also contributed to major projects like the High Line and Chicago’s Navy Pier.