Jenny Lauer
Jenny joined Nelson Byrd Woltz in June 2019 after receiving her Master of Landscape Architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). At NBW, Jenny serves to bridge the culture and design teams. She brings a specialization in creatively synthesizing archival documentation, oral histories, historic mapping, and other data to produce Cultural Landscape studies informing long-term landscape planning, design, and interpretation.
Jenny’s graduate thesis recognized and revealed multiple historic narratives at Rose Hill, a former plantation landscape in the Finger Lakes region of New York, through both research and design proposals. Upon graduating, she received an ASLA-NY Honor Award and was awarded the distinction of becoming a 2019 Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar Finalist. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies with a focus in sustainable development from Allegheny College, where she received the Faculty Prize for Best Interdisciplinary Research for her efforts to establish local food justice initiatives for families fleeing violence in her home state of Pennsylvania.
Jenny’s current projects at NBW include the Angel Oak Preserve in Charleston SC; Bard College Comprehensive Landscape Plan in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Eldon Farms in Woodville, VA; and the Comprehensive Landscape Plan for Middleton Place in Charleston SC.