Terry Fitzpatrick, PLA, ASLA, Principal

Terry brings a thoughtful, creative, and collaborative approach to projects of all scales and typologies.  He carries over fifteen years of professional experience – having practiced alongside some of our field’s most distinguished landscape architects and urban designers.  Terry has successfully managed numerous interdisciplinary teams through diverse, complex, and award-winning projects. 

Terry holds degrees in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and SUNY College of Environmental Design and Forestry.   Most recently, Terry served as an Associate for Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) in New York from 2018 through 2024. Before that, he worked as a project manager for five years at STIMSON Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and for brief tenures at Meyer Studio Land Architects, The Landscape Management Group, and Reed Hilderbrand.  

approach

Terry approaches projects with rigor and inquisitiveness – listening deeply to clients, community stakeholders, and the place itself.  He is a master of conceptualizing unique spaces and working quickly through numerous iterations of hand drawings and digital representation.  Employing a context driven design process, Terry often finds inspiration from researching a site’s history, or in engaging critically with cultural and ecological challenges.  Terry excels in creative construction detailing, application of progressive technologies, and the thoughtful use of materials; and he has proven experience working with contractors through the bidding, negotiations, and construction administration process.

parks + urban + institutional

Terry has managed numerous projects involving the planning, design and construction for parks, museums, cultural centers, botanic gardens, urban design, and community developments.  While at NBW, Terry served as project manager for an AIA award winning interdisciplinary landscape master plan for Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanic Garden spanning over four years.  This work led to several subsequent collaborations with Snug Harbor including concept design for the proposed Farm Education Pavilion.  At Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Winterthur, Delaware, Terry served as project manager for another master plan, including an intensive Cultural Landscape Synthesis report, and strategic design interventions to address challenging site circulation and programmatic opportunities.  At Edge-On-Hudson in Sleepy Hollow, New York, Terry managed concept design through public permitting and construction, contributing to a productive public-private partnership, and bringing creative placemaking and ecological planting design to a new public waterfront landscape.  Also at NBW, Terry provided detailed design and construction oversight for complex urban development projects including Tampa Water Street G1 Block, Time Warner Center Green Roofs, and Hudson Yards Streetscapes, both in New York City.  While at Meyer Studio Land Architects, Terry led the landscape design team for the mixed-use redevelopment of UCSF’s Laurel Heights Campus through a demanding public approvals process, including coordination with San Francisco city agencies and numerous architectural and engineering consultants.

educational campuses

Terry has accrued substantial experience in project management, planning, design, and construction of educational and campus landscapes.  While at STIMSON Studio, Terry notably served as a project manager and designer for the Harvard Allston Science and Engineering Complex, Moses Brown School’s Woodman Community and Performance Center, UNH Memorial Union re-design, Phillips Andover Music Building, as well as projects at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Babson College, Boston College, Northeastern University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Paul’s School, Philips-Andover Academy, and the Duke University Alumni Center.  Terry was a member of the design team for the 2024 ASLA Honor Award winning design of the Georgia Tech Eco-Commons by NBW.  While at Reed Hilderbrand, Terry contributed to several educational projects including Duke University Eden Steps and the Abele Quadrangle.

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farm + ecology

At Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Terry managed ambitious, research-driven projects in conservation agriculture and ecological stewardship.  This work is strategically at the tip of the spear:  unifying scientific research with pragmatic design, and promoting the development of innovative, regionally scalable, environmentally catalytic, and economically sustainable methods for managing large landscapes.  Spanning a spectrum from remediation, to conservation, to preservation, Terry is able to facilitate and enrich the collaborative dialogue between the thinkers, seers, and doers, which these important landscapes desperately need.

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residential landscapes

Good design should seek simplicity, order, connection, and dialogue with our environment.  One’s home should be immersive in nature – a place for the mind to dwell – whether it’s an intimate garden or an expansive vista.  Well-crafted details matter.  Planting may be wild or cultured but must be ecologically engaged.  Terry’s work on residential landscapes does all of these.  He is a master of landscape detail and plant material.  His projects have ranged from small urban gardens, to island retreats, to farmsteads situated throughout New York, New England, California, the Southeast, and Europe.

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mission

In 2024 Terry began Dialogue-Environment Studio with a mission to deepen the connections of individuals with their communities, histories, and ecologies.  Vital to this mission is the making of artful landscapes.  These places of everyday life – supporting social, mental, and environmental health – are dire imperatives for the Anthropocene.  The creation of inclusive multi-generational landscapes and social infrastructure are of particular focus.  

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Please reach out if you’re interested in collaboration, to discuss a project, or to request more information.