Zuzana Ponca, Staff Designer

Zuzana Ponca joined Nelson Byrd Woltz in the winter 2007. She received her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from University of California, Berkeley in 2002. She was a member of a studio project team that won the 2001 Metropolis Magazine Sustainable Design Competition for the design of a sustainable urban streetscape in San Leandro, CA. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Architectural History and German in 1996 from Tufts University after which she spent a year in the Slovak Republic on a Fulbright Fellowship researching developments in contemporary architecture in Bratislava.

Prior to joining NBW, Zuzana worked for the Office of Cheryl Barton in San Francisco (2001-2003), Ripley Design Group in Walnut Creek, CA (2003), and Hannetel Yver Laforge (HYL) Landscape Architects in Paris, France (2004-2007). Current work at NBW includes revitalization projects for the City of Lynchburg downtown and along the waterfront of the James River; the Montalto Conference Center for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, VA; and the University of Miami Master Plan in Coral Gables, Florida.