HANNAH BROOK SMITH
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
2018
2025
Trained as an artist, with a heart and passion for ecology and natural systems. In 2015, Hannah earned a BA from St. Lawrence University in Fine Art, Art History, Outdoor Studies, Sustainability, and English. I am a Rochester, New York native who spent a period of time living and working in the North Country and the Adirondack region of New York State as well as Cortona, Italy in the heart of Tuscany. Both worlds; their people, landscapes, communities and ways of life; changed me forever.
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I found Landscape Architecture when I was 30, after ten years of professional experience across a diverse range of industries; food production, wood working, hospitality, marketing and sales, art + design, naturopathic medicine, business ownership, education, strength + conditioning, health coaching, and nursery and landscaping work.
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As of Spring 2026, I am completing my final semester as a graduate student in the Master's of Landscape Architecture program at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, this website serves as an overview of who I am, my background personally and professionally, and a catalog of meaningful work during this MLA degree process.
ARTIST 2010-2015
TEACHER
MAKER
ENTREPRENUER 2015-2021
HEALTH COACH
COMPANY MANAGER 2021-2023
MLA STUDENT 2023-2026
LANDSCAPER 2023-2025​
PERSONAL
STATEMENT
With gratitude,
Hannah Brook Smith
01 Portfolio
My portfolio highlights a range of outcomes through exploring workflows and curiosity for process. Depending on the type of project and the type of skills learned and practiced, my work reflects a variety of goals based on specific prompts and design goals. ​My graphic language is continuously developing. I aim to design for best possible long-term ecological effectiveness married with positive human health outcomes, grounding myself in pragmatic realities while envisioning the magic that landscape brings, in all places for all beings.
Stone Quarry Art Park Project Visualization, Cazenovia, New York | Fall 2025
02 Buzz Words
Regenerative Design, Adaptive Reuse, Environmental Justice, Participatory Design, Public Health through Ecological Health, Circular Flows, Sustainable Material Management, Community Enriched, Interconnected Living Systems, Messy Networks and Innovative Possibilities.
03 Design Manifesto
Where art, ecology and infrastructure meet and marry. Ethical land use and planning, regenerative living systems thinking, economic and ecological equity, community development, positive public health outcomes, resilient systems, rethinking how we live, make, grow, play and work and the spaces in which we do all these things. Creating places that improve human and non-human lives over time rather than degrade them.
05 Contact
