Maura Rockcastle
Maura loves leading large-scale projects and navigating complex and culturally sensitive processes. Her design and leadership approach are grounded in listening, experimentation, and empathy, allowing her work to translate experiences into landscapes through spatializing stories and activating the senses.
With a background in fine arts, she balances a rigorous approach to leadership, project implementation, and design excellence with a conceptual sensibility rooted in process. She holds a BFA in sculpture and printmaking from Cornell University and an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania, where she won the Ian L. McHarg Prize and an ASLA Certificate of Honor.
Maura鈥檚 professional experience is focused on cultural, institutional, and public realm projects. Her work spans many scales - from 4,500-acre parks to 5-acre urban plazas, to small collaborative art installations and interactive interpretive features. Recognized as a national leader of design process innovation, adaptive reuse, and culturally significant landscapes, her projects have received national awards for design excellence, sustainability, and preservation from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Architectural League of New York, and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
She believes in being hands-on, both as an approach to design as well as to practice inclusive, open, and successful collaborations with clients and teams. She鈥檚 deeply passionate about engaging curiosity to explore new methods of seeing and understanding landscapes and people.