DEVIN
Designer through the professional practice of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, and ARCHITECTURE with a passionate dedication to artful and experiential exploration.
The natural explorative ideation so lovingly conducted is permitted exclusively through an immersive necessity of SUSTAINABILITY in all aspects of design: ecological, material, systematic, experiential, oriental, and connectivity beginning in primary, and secondary formats.
My StoryI began my journey after graduating High School with an Advanced Regents Diploma from the Lake Shore School District in a small town located next to Lake Erie, south of Buffalo, NY. The shifting environmental resources and physical attributes carried over into my work at the 5 year College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) Landscape Architecture Program where I received my
From there, I worked professionally as a Landscape Designer at Appel Osborn designing sport complexes and becoming Storm Water Protection Plan certified (SWPP) in New York. Although extremely rewarding, my interests began to invest in comprehensive puzzles surrounding planning, technologies, and the inherit art that is specifically related to the field of architecture. By divulging this interest, I was led to the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning in the University at Buffalo where I have developed skills expanded by a rigorous drive of creativity and pushed further by a persisting call to sustainable practices resulting in discoveries beyond what I could have imagined. Cultivating these skills in a rigorous and thoroughly engaging environment has resulted in an exceedingly deep rooted passion in the arts and processes amassing, and extending past architecture, but a
Bachelors Landscape Architecture
masters Architecture
along with a few accolades including publications in
MONTEVERDE FRIENDS SCHOOL CLIENT REPORT
INTERSIGHT 29 2027
INTERSIGHT 28 2026
INTERSIGHT 27 2025
and awards including
MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN EXCELLENCE
while working freelance in both architecture and landscape architecture disciplines, and as a Teaching Assistant for a smart cities and sustainability course.