School of Planning, Design and Construction

LA Distinguished Speaker Series

Our graduates and alumni enjoy rewarding and productive lives, advancing their careers in all public and private practice areas of the Landscape Architecture Profession.

Our alumni are leaders of prestigious firms, business owners, university professors and employees in private, full-service landscape architecture, land planning, engineering, design and multidisciplinary practices. They enjoy careers in local, state and national public agencies, including city planning and parks departments, National Forest and National Parks Services and the Army Corp of Engineers.

The MSU Landscape Architecture heritage of distinguished alumni includes many important innovators and leaders of the profession.

Alumni Firms and Featured Firms

• Beckett and Raeder, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
• EDSA, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Giffels Webster, Detroit, MI
• GMB Architecture + Engineering, Holland, MI
• Hamilton-Anderson, Detroit, MI
• Hitchcock Design Group, Naperville, IL
• Johnson Hill Land Ethics Studio, Ann Arbor, MI
• Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architecture, Farmington Hills, MI
• LandDesign, Charlotte, NC
• Landscape Architects & Planners, Inc., Lansing, MI
• Mannik Smith Group, Canton, MI
• MCSA Group, Inc., East Grand Rapids, MI
• OHM Advisors, Livonia, MI
• Outside Partnership LLC, MI
• Prein & Newhof, Grand Rapids, MI
• PEA Group, Brighton, MI
• Randy Brown Landscape, Belleville, MI
• Redstone Land Development, Grand Rapids, MI
• Site Planning Development, Inc., Charlevoix, MI
• Smithgroup JJR, Ann Arbor, MI
• Turner Design Group, Howell Township, MI
• Vidosh North LLC., Petoskey, MI
• Viridis Design Group, Kalamazoo, MI
• Confluence, De Moines, IA
• Meisner+Associates Land Vision, Cincinnati, OH

How to Add Your Firm to This List

If you would like to add your firm’s web address to this list, please send the following information to Andrew Orlando at: orland21@msu.edu.

• Your Name,
• Name of Firm or Business,
• Firm web site address,
• Firm mailing address, and
• Firm phone number.

MSU Landscape Architecture Alumni & Advisory Board

Board Purpose: The purpose of the Board is to provide support for the MSU Landscape Architecture Program as it advances leadership in landscape-based research, thought leadership, and design excellence and to foster a world class educational experience for students enabling them to become leaders of the landscape architecture profession. The Board publishes the LandTEXTURE newsletter annually.

Board Membership: The Board is composed of a total of sixteen individuals (fifteen members, and the Board President) and strives to look at all aspects of the program and to make recommendations that will benefit the students and faculty; encouraging them to pursue great ideas through research, education and real-life experiences. A board member is expected to serve a three-year term.

Current Board Members:

• Tim Britain, PLA, Board President, Principal, VIRIDIS Design Group
• Vicki McGhee, Board Treasurer, Chief of Planning & Infrastructure, Michigan Department of Natural Resources
• Katy Hallgren, PLA, Board Secretary, Director of Architecture, Planning and Design, Northgate Resorts
• Dan Wenk, Board Treasurer, Board Member, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Mount Rushmore Society, Katahdin Woods and Waters.
• Lori Singleton, SmithGroup, Ann Arbor, MI, RLA, Vice President, Design Director, Landscape Architect, SmithGroup
• Alex Fenech, PLA, ASLA, Managing Principal, Hitchcock Design Group (South Florida)
• Stacy Tobar, PLA, ASLA, LEED-AP, Director of Landscape Architecture, OHM Advisors
• Jon Doherty, PLA, Project Manager, Kimley Horn
• Bill Wenk, Board Member, Founding Principal, Wenk Associates, Inc
• Robert Chipman ASLA, Founding principal, Robert Chipman Landscape Architect,
• Dan Lord, Chief of Finance and Operations,  Michigan Department of Natural Resources
• Hillary Hanzel, Park Planner & Landscape Architect, City of Ann Arbor  
• Chanelle Russ, Emerging Leader Board Member, Landscape Designer, Vidosh North, LLC

Interested in joining the Board? Please email Secretary.MSULAAAB@gmail.com for more information.