Thomas L. Woltz, FASLA, CLARB

Nelson Byrd Woltz, Senior Principal and Owner

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Our keynote speaker for this year will be Thomas Woltz, a visionary landscape architect whose transformative work has fundamentally reshaped the civic, cultural, and ecological identity of Houston. As the Senior Principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Woltz approaches Houston, not just as an urban sprawl, but as a dynamic ecosystem. His signature methodology of marrying deep botanical research with cultural storytelling has given Houstonians some of their most iconic and healing public sanctuaries including Memorial Park, and The Ismali Center.