Senior Landscape Architect, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), CPH/NYC/LON
Lecture Title: BIG in the Public Realm
March 26, 2020

Autumn is a Senior Landscape Architect at BIG leading the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) and the Brooklyn-Queens Park (BQP) projects. Her approach has been devoted to building projects through a clear and concise methodology in better preparing cities and communities for climate adaptation. This direction evolved into designing and developing climate resilient strategies for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with the Rockefeller Foundation’s “100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge” alongside the national Rebuild By Design and the Mississippi River Delta Changing Course competitions.

Autumn is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Outstanding Recent Alumna from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. She is also the 2011 recipient of the national ASLA student honor award and the 2010 VA ASLA Certificate of Honor. She also worked as a teaching and research assistant for the University of Pennsylvania while contributing to “Landscapes of Substance” published by Oro Press and the University of Pennsylvania.