PLACE Alliance is a multi-studio collective with a team of over a dozen passionate designers and specialists dedicated to the craft of place-making. We take pride in the diversity of our backgrounds and skill sets. We also take pride in the sense of community and collaboration that we share among our firm and spread through our work, generated by the common vision we share for healthy and harmonious places.
Our People
Mauricio Castro is an architect/urban designer whose particular expertise encompasses traditional town planning and urban design for infill redevelopment and greenfield sites of all sizes, mixes of uses and price points; architectural prototype design and implementation; the formulation of architectural design guidelines and land development codes; and leadership roles in visioning and design charrettes with…
Marc Newman is an architect/urban designer with over 15 years of professional and academic training in both architecture and the environmental sciences. Through his work on a variety of national and international projects, ranging from traditional town planning to urban infill and redevelopment projects to sustainable communities and mixed-use resorts, Marc brings a necessary skill…
Jhuly Pinilla Jhuly joined PLACE Alliance’s Florida Studio as a project designer in August 2016. Originally trained as an industrial designer in Colombia, she worked previously with Foro Design SAS, a partner firm of PLACE Alliance, on conceptual exhibit design for the tag! Children’s Museum of St Augustine. Since joining the Florida Studio, Jhuly has…
Ian Law, RLA As head of the PLACE Alliance New York Design Studio, Ian is one of the North Eastern Region’s leaders in urban design and planning. His 20 years of experience in landscape architecture and urban planning, downtown revitalization, and community master planning have spanned a wide variety of award-winning projects, including the State…
Michael P. Frederick As a project manager based in our PLACE Alliance New York studio, Michael has worked on a variety of compelling projects since joining in the summer of 2015. His keen design sense contributed to the conceptual development and visualization of One Monument Square in downtown Troy, NY, Creek Walk Park in Tannersville,…
Kimberly Case Kimberly joined the New York studio as a project designer in June of 2016. Since then she has successfully collaborated on many diverse projects ranging from park design, K-12 school campus design, downtown revitalizations, streetscapes, and urban master planning including the Green Infrastructure Streetscape Project in Sidney, NY, the Gooseberry Creek Revitalization Strategy…
Andrew Bohne, RLA As the PLACE Alliance Director of Ecological Design and co-principal of PLACE Alliance’s Northeast branch, Andy’s expertise in integrating ecological function with the built environment promotes the resilient and healthy placemaking that lies at the heart of all our work. His professional experience since 1999 has earned him a broad knowledge base…
Jeffery Dawson Jeff is an ecological designer at PLACE Alliance Northeast with several years of experience working throughout the northeast region. Jeff joined the PLACE Alliance team in June 2017. Jeff manages a dynamic variety of tasks and is an active and effective collaborator with the many participants and partnerships involved in the design process.…
Sara Lawler Sara’s passion for the natural world and personal commitment to sustainable living has brought her to landscape architecture after a variety of educational, professional, and personal experiences that have developed her skills and shaped her perspective as an ecological designer. Sara’s particular interests are in wetland ecology, water reuse and recycling systems, green…
Josiah Simpson Josiah is a designer with a passion for enhancing and rehabilitating ecological systems within urban areas and degraded lands, and improving the human experience of those landscapes. His design approach involves a process of understanding the story of a place, unpacking a landscape’s social, economic, and environmental layers from the past and present…