Arriscraft Canada Brick Speaker Series: Adaptive Landscapes, Gena Wirth

Gena Wirth, RLA, is Design Principal and Partner at SCAPE. She works with cities, community advocates and landowners to reveal the immense ecological and cultural potential of public landscapes.

As Design Principal, Gena translates research into practice, leading the design and implementation of complex, multi-stakeholder landscapes—including public and private waterfronts, regional trail systems, parks, plazas and climate adaptation plans. Within SCAPE, Gena leads firm-wide design standards, ensuring excellence from concept through construction, and serves as Principal-in-Charge for a wide range of projects across the U.S. spanning typologies and scales.

Gena is also a tenacious advocate for ecological systems design across the design fields—both as a member of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a non-profit group, and through past teaching positions at Harvard, Columbia, Syracuse and Rutgers. She also serves on SCAPE’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC), helping advance the firm’s commitments to social and racial justice within our work and throughout the field. She holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning with Distinction from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Horticulture from the University of Delaware.

Moderated by Jane Mah Hutton.

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