April 11, 2025 @ 4:00 p.m. MT | Vern Budge Lecture
Speaker Bio
Originally from Wisconsin, Todd has lived and worked in Colorado and California for over forty years. Early life in a small town on the Wolf River introduced him to the experience of nature as a playground, as an escape, and as series of evolving places. Spurred by observations of human caused environmental degradation, Todd found landscape architecture as means of melding ecological reparation with art, while studying geology and native plant community restoration in the midwest. Drawn to wilder environments, Todd moved west immediately after undergraduate school, eventually joining Civitas and remaining there for more than twenty years.
Emerging opportunities for change lead him to join Peter Walker Partners (PWP) in Berkeley, and later the Office of Cheryl Barton (O|CB) in San Francisco. Now with SCAPE in their San Francisco office, he applies decades of experience in a collaborative team-focused approach, blending critical design thinking with problem-solving and mentoring. His project experience varies in scale, complexity, and budget—including urban parks and gardens; educational, medical, and corporate campuses; waterfronts; and urban infill redevelopments. Joining SCAPE is coming full circle, as he is now involved in a practice that designs and deeply advocates for ecologically restorative and socially engaged landscapes and is committed to building natural infrastructure for the future.
Todd holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor’s of Science in Natural Resources from the University of Wisconsin. He has also served as a juror and Design Advisory Panelist for the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
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