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Unknown Studio Contributes to Publication Letting Play Bloom

Unknown Studio and GLMV Selected to Lead Planning for The Naples Botanical Garden

Groundbreaking at North Meadow Park on Boston’s Greenway

Join Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre on June 22 at #ASLASkillEd for a conversation with SCAPE’s Alexis Landes and Lorena Galvao to discuss business as a social practice. This three day online conference offers professional development sessions on business development, proposals, contracting and more. CEU’s are available. For more information and to register visit: https://asla.org/SkillEd

Unknown Studio is thrilled to have been selected to lead a talented design and engineering team for The Druid Lake Vision Plan. Under the leadership of Baltimore City Recreation & Parks, a community planning effort will guide the transformation of this former drinking reservoir and beloved destination into a new recreational amenity.

Unknown Studio is honored to have been awarded the commission to redesign Roland Water Tower Park, an historic greenspace that has evolved from civil infrastructure and transportation hub to community greenspace and home to beloved peregrine falcons. Our studio is thrilled to kick off public engagement for this gem of a park in order to design a space that serves the needs of the immediate neighborhoods and greater Baltimore.

On Thursday, September 24 at 12pm, Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre will present at the Virtual Ohio ASLA Speaker Series. Her lecture, “MicroCosmos: Recent Works by Unknown Studio” will discuss balancing resilience with the creation of meaningful human experiences and how large-scale projects can be phased incrementally for meaningful, long term impacts.

Unknown Studio is pleased to announce the promotion of David Zielnicki to Principal Landscape Architect. As a founding team member, David’s intelligence, rigor, creativity, and collaborative spirit have been foundational to the culture and design at Unknown Studio. As designers and inhabitants of the landscape, we rely on passion, comfort with complexity, and an empathetic spirit. Dave is emblematic of all the above and we welcome him to the leadership team with great enthusiasm for the collaborations that lie ahead.

On Thursday, March 12th, Unknown Studio’s Nick Glase and Claire Agre will present the Keynote Lecture at 2020 Vision, ASLA Kentucky’s Conference on Landscape Architecture. Their lecture, “All the Pieces Matter: Recent Works by Unknown Studio” will explore complexity, serendipity and open-endedness in design practice. Looking back while they project into the future, Unknown Studio will discuss how their deliberate move of setting up their practice in Baltimore has helped enrich their work and expand their role as practitioners.

Join Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre and James Corner Field Operations’ Sarah Weidner Astheimer for the inaugural talk of the 2020 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series. Claire and Sarah will present “Unbuilt Futures,” a dialogue focusing on landscape architects’ leading role in a process of unbuilding. Whether deconstructing hard shorelines into soft, resilient and ecological edges; establishing strategies for managed retreat; or reconceptualizing rural open spaces as sophisticated, regenerative landscapes; the discipline of landscape architecture is heavily engaged in finding solutions for the intricate and complex questions facing our common future.

Seen in Philadelphia: Unknown Studio’s Nick Glase and Claire Agre served as invited design critics at The University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design’s final reviews. The first-year core landscape studio explored the design of a Path and a Garden within the context of the Upper Roxborough Reservoir north of Philadelphia. Explorations of transect, bodily experience, mapping and application of precedent yielded an incredibly impressive array of projects. Thanks to Studio coordinator and Assistant Professor Sean Burkholder for the invitation, and a pleasure as always to see friends from TENxTEN and Reed Hilderbrand out and about. Many thanks to the faculty and students of the Department of Landscape Architecture for having us.

Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre is honored to be speaking alongside Coen+Partners’ Robin Ganser and Design Workshop’s Mike Albert at this year’s American Society of Landscape Architects National Conference in San Diego. Their panel, entitled “Extending the Invitation: Revitalizing Public Landscapes for the 21st Century” will take a critical look at striking the difficult balance between past and future on historic sites. The panel views this as an increasingly relevant topic as landscape architects more frequently work within the footprints of our distant and living forebears.

Unknown Studio is honored to participate in Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning Fall Lecture series. On Wednesday, November 6 at 5:30, Nick Glase and Claire Agre will be presenting recent works inspired by the launch of their landscape architecture studio in Baltimore, MD. Their lecture, “Manifestographs,” will explore lessons learned over 35 years of practice, in addition to specific provocations for the built environment in their hometown of Baltimore.

Unknown Studio is delighted to share that the first phase of The Duke University Sculpture Park opened to the public on Saturday. This elegant new landscape connects the Nasher Museum of Art to Campus Drive and The Rubenstein Arts Center through a contemporary material palette realized for the Arts District at Duke. As Principal at West 8, Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre won the Sculpture Park commission, and together with the West 8 design team, led vision, feasibility and detailed design of the Sculpture Park over a four-year period (2015-2019).

Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre has been elected to the Board of Directors for The Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL). A member of the National Association for Olmsted Parks, FMOPL is committed to advancing the Olmsted legacy and its relevance in Maryland through accessible public parks, sustainable landscapes, and livable communities—respecting and protecting the accomplishments of the past and seeking relevant solutions for the challenges of today.

ASK + and Unknown Studio are thrilled to have been selected for the design of Parcel 2—a critical node and open space on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. We look forward to working with Boston Planning and Development Agency, Mass DOT, the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, and the community on the design of this keystone site.

Unknown Studio has been accepted to prestigious Walton Family Foundation’s Northwest Design Excellence Program. We are honored to be among the 2019 honorees including our peers at JCFO, Hoerr Schaudt, Coen + Partners, and others.

Be among the first to see and comment on Middle Branch Waterfront Design Competition entries.

The details:

May 29, 2019, 6-8 PM
Middle Branch Boathouse, 3301 Waterview Ave,
Baltimore 21230

Unknown Studio’s Meg Baldwin has been invited to participate in Undoing Racism, a workshop facilitated by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a national multiracial, antiracist network dedicated to ending racism and institutional oppression. Through dialogue, reflection, strategic planning and presentations, this intensive process will challenge participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and will prepare them to be effective organizers for justice.