STOSS INC
STOSS INC., Boston, MA
BROWN + STOREY ARCHITECTS, Toronto, ON
ZAS ARCHITECTS Inc., Toronto, ON
Brookner Studio
Nina-Marie Lister
Applied Ecological Systems
Pine + Swallow Associates
Nitsch Engineering, Inc.
Moffatt + Nichol
ARUP
Kidd Consulting
Consult Econ, Inc.
Stoss is an internationally-recognized, Boston-based strategic design and planning studio. Stoss has built its core practice around a set of hybridized design and planning strategies called landscape urbanism. This positioning enables both a critical and a pragmatic broadening of landscape agendas, to move beyond a simplistic visual and decorative approach to landscape improvements to one that is capable of addressing more far-reaching issues of infrastructure and function; ecology and sustainability; flexibility and interim staging; fiscal strategy and funding; and administration, management, and maintenance. In this way, the landscape is thickened, in that it takes on new roles that are more relevant to contemporary civic life and more achievable within the context of contemporary public works projects, fiscal agenda, and a tendency toward public-private-institutional coalitions. Here, landscape is rendered as urban generator and flexible framework, able to catalyze growth, interaction, and activity in the short term, and capable of facilitating succession, adaptation, and evolution in the long term.
The team is organized as a collaboration among principals. Chris Reed of Stoss, James Brown and Kim Storey of Brown and Storey Architects, and Paul Stevens of ZAS will comprise the core team.
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