Founded in 1985, Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is a 35-person landscape architecture firm with offices in Charlottesville Virginia, New York City, and San Francisco. Committed to education and conservation, the firm has been involved in a broad array of public and private projects including botanic gardens and zoos, public parks, private gardens and estates, academic institutions, corporate campuses, and town planning. The firm actively seeks this diversity of project scales and types to cultivate the creativity of the professional staff. The varied backgrounds of the staff include studies in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, anthropology, biology, economics, ecology, zoology, horticulture, art, art history, and architectural history. This broad knowledge base supports the firm’s collective creativity and ability to respond to diverse client needs.

The firm’s work has garnered over 80 national and regional awards and has been widely published. Current projects include Hudson Yards (NY) Flight 93 National Memorial (PA), Google Corporate Headquarters (CA), Catalina Island (CA), Devonian Botanic Garden (Edmonton, Canada), Southwest Waterfront (Washington DC) and Brooklyn Navy Yard Naval Hospital Cemetery Memorial Landscape (NY). The work of the firm has been featured in numerous national and international publications and will be the subject of a monograph published by Princeton Architectural Press scheduled for release in May 2013.