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Lori Silverman, Principal Landscape Architect

Lori Silverman is a recognized leader in the design and realization of landscapes distinguished as poetic expressions of particular places. Her projects are known for their sustainability, environmental responsibility, accessibility, and response to community and client concerns.

Her experience includes public and private projects of historic and cultural significance on the east and west coasts, including award winning projects in California, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest.

Lori is known for her attention to detail and ability to provide clients responsive, thoughtful designs, which integrate creative, practical solutions into complex programmatic requirements and site conditions. From initial design through completion, she maintains focus on balancing project and client goals, budgets and schedules, while assuring design integrity.

Over the past twenty-six years she has demonstrated her ability to successfully participate with collaborative teams of architects, clients, consultants and city agencies through all phases of complex, multi-faceted public and private sectors projects and processes for large and small scale corporate campuses, housing and mixed use residential projects, educational & child care facilities, research and medical institutions, civic projects, commercial entities, recreation and parks, transportation terminals and corridors, and the entertainment industry, including extensive experience with on- structure systems.

A former partner with Campbell & Campbell, Lori directed the firm’s public and private sector landscape architecture, urban design and planning projects from inception through completion, long term maintenance and LEED and entitlement processes. Her east coast experience includes IBM corporate headquarters campus planning & design and mixed use redevelopment projects for Union Station Redesign in Washington, D.C. and South Street Seaport Fulton Market in New York City with Benjamin Thompson and Associates; and Capital Improvement Programs for historic neighborhood parks and Emerald Necklace Parks restoration with the City of Boston Parks & Recreation Planning and Development Office.

Ms. Silverman has degrees from Rhode Island School of Design and Temple University and is a registered Landscape Architect in the State of California.

Registration

Landscape Architect, State of California # 3637

Project Awards and Honors

Chapter Awards Neighborhood District and Corridor Finalist: Westgate Mixed Use Housing, Melendrez, 2010.

Award:  Golden Nugget Best Community Site Plan under 20 acres: Westgate Mixed Use Housing,  Melendrez, 2010.

Award: Grisham Community Housing, Low Income Housing Design Excellence, VP with Campbell, 2005.

Commendation: from Friends of the Ballona Wetlands, to Campbell & Campbell for great service in designing the Master Plan for community environmental space at Debs Park, VP with Campbell July, 2004.

Platinum Award Highest Honors: Audubon Center Los Angeles, United States Green Building Council, VP with Campbell, December 2003

Inaugural Award: Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Audubon Center LA, State of California Regional Water Quality Control Board, November 2003, VP with Campbell.

Landscape Architect:  St. Matthews Parrish, Pacific Palisades, LSLA 2002-2004

Award: Toska Project, New City International Design Competition, 4th prize, Cairo Egypt, 1999.

Contributor:  “Current Projects,” California Native Plant Society, South Coast Chapter, 1992.

Award: American Planning Association, East Washington Boulevard Streetscape, June 1998.

Exhibition: Contributor with Campbell & Campbell, Current Projects, UCLA Graduate School of Architecture Gallery,1993.

Winner: East Washington Boulevard Public Participation Workshop, Culver City, CA, 1993.

Participant: WATTS NEXT: The Challenge of Change, Community Planning Workshop LA/DAPT, 1989.

Third prize, 1988 Contributor: Roger Williams Park Masterplan, RI , 1984.

Contributor:  Olmsted in Massachusetts: A Public Legacy, Harvard University Press, 1983.

Education

Bachelor of Landscape Achitecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island