Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects is hiring an Experienced Landscape Designer or Landscape Architect / Project Manager for its New York City office. The firm requires a minimum of five years of professional experience, with demonstrated project-management responsibility across all phases, from conceptual design through construction administration. The listing places particular emphasis on developing and coordinating construction documents, the detailed drawings that guide builders through every step of a project.
The opening arrives at a moment when Nelson Byrd Woltz has been involved in several high-profile projects across the United States. Three completed or recently unveiled works show the range of the firm’s practice and the caliber of the collaborations it pursues. Each project pairs the firm’s landscape work with a prominent architecture studio, and each sits in a different American city.
Ismaili Center. Image credit: Iwan Baan
The most ambitious of the three is the Ismaili Center in Houston, completed in November 2025 by Farshid Moussavi Architecture. Nelson Byrd Woltz served as landscape architect on the project, drawing on more than a decade of research into Islamic gardens to shape the site. Terraced lawns and flood-adaptive gardens follow the land’s natural slope toward Buffalo Bayou, a move that integrates environmental resilience with cultural symbolism. The result merges ecological engineering with contemplative open space.
In Garrison, New York, Nelson Byrd Woltz collaborated with Studio Gang on a broader campus master plan for Hudson Valley Shakespeare. That plan reached a visible milestone earlier in 2026 when Studio Gang’s Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center was completed, a curved timber open-air performance venue set within the landscape the firm helped shape.
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A third project places the firm’s work at the center of one of New York’s most watched cultural institutions. In December 2025, the New York Historical unveiled detailed designs for the Tang Wing for American Democracy, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The scheme includes a rooftop terrace overlooking Central Park, and Nelson Byrd Woltz designed that terrace. You can picture the vantage point: an elevated garden framing views across one of the world’s most recognized public parks.
Together, these three commissions cover a wide band of the profession. The Houston project demanded deep research into a specific garden tradition and the ability to manage stormwater on a sloping site. The Garrison work required fitting performance spaces into a rural campus. The New York Historical terrace called for a compact, elevated landscape tied to a major institutional building. A candidate joining the firm now would enter a studio whose recent portfolio spans cultural, civic, and educational work at a national scale.
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The position itself asks for someone who can move between design thinking and construction-phase coordination. Nelson Byrd Woltz specifies experience across all project phases, which means the successful candidate will need to be comfortable sketching early concepts and equally comfortable redlining shop drawings during construction administration. Project-management responsibility is not optional; the listing treats it as a baseline requirement alongside the five-year experience minimum.
For landscape architects considering a move to New York, the firm’s current workload offers a clear signal about the types of projects the role is likely to involve. The collaborations with Studio Gang, RAMSA, and Farshid Moussavi Architecture suggest a practice that works alongside leading design firms on complex, multi-disciplinary commissions. If you are a landscape professional with five or more years of experience and a track record in construction documentation, the listing is live on Archinect Jobs.
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The role is one of the positions currently featured in Archinect’s Job Highlights series, which profiles open listings each week. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects lists one active opening on the platform as of September 2026.
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