"Landscape, Memory, and Truth: Unlocking Histories Hidden in The Land"

CIVIQ with Thomas Woltz

Hosted by Chattanooga Design Studio in partnership with Trust for Public Land

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Chattanooga Public Library, Downtown Branch

5:30-7:00 pm

Always Free, All Welcome

Chattanooga Design Studio thanks the Lyndhurst Foundation for seeding and funding CIVIQ: A Series Honoring Robert Taylor.

The tools of landscape architecture are key to the future of our public parks, cultural landscapes, infrastructure, agricultural lands, and healthy ecologies. We have a responsibility to let the land tell its stories. Mr. Woltz will present several Nelson Byrd Woltz projects exemplifying the research-based design approach unique to the firm's process. The projects presented include national memorials and public landscapes that reveal powerful histories while connecting communities to our shared past and each other.

Thomas L. Woltz, FASLA, CLARB

Senior Principal and Owner, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Over the past two decades of practice Thomas and his team have infused narratives of the land into the places where people live, work, and play, engendering stewardship and inspiring connections between people and the natural world.

Woltz was educated at the University of Virginia and holds master’s degrees in landscape architecture and architecture. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the State University of New York, Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. He was recognized with the Land for People Award by the Trust for Public Land in 2019 and as one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company in 2017. Woltz currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the University of Virginia School of Architecture Foundation.

At present, Thomas is leading NBW in the design of significant public landscapes across the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, including the John and Alice Coltrane Home in New York, Holden Forest & Arboretum in Cleveland, Cornwall Park in Auckland, and Memorial Park in Houston.

Learn more about Thomas Woltz and his work.

Visit Chattanooga Design Studio for more information about projects and programs, including CIVIQ.

Chattanooga Design Studio is an independent non-profit community resource that promotes excellence in urban design through education, facilitation, and collaboration. CIVIQ is a quarterly event that introduces and humanizes national and international movements in urban design.