Lorri Nelson, AIA, NCARB

Project Architect

Lorri is both a Senior Designer and Landscape Designer at Rowell Brokaw Architects and has extensive experience working in multi-disciplinary firms combining planning, landscape architecture and architecture.

Her work includes programming landscape design and land use. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture where she teaches the Urban Farm and School Garden Seminar. Lorri combines her interest in service learning and outdoor classrooms and brings together students from many disciplines to create and support gardens and the outdoor classroom concept. She brings to the firm a unique background in architecture and landscape architecture. Lorri was a key member of the Crescent Village mixed-use development team, and has also worked on Cannery Station mixed-use project in Florence, the Long Street Assisted Facility in Nevada, the Harrisburg and Jefferson Library projects, and the Relief Nursery project in Springfield. She is currently working on a new health clinic at the Department of Veterans Affairs in White City, Oregon.

Lorri has also been instrumental in the creation of two acclaimed community garden projects, the Courthouse Garden, a two-acre abandoned lot near the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Eugene and the Adams and Cesar Chavez Garden Projects, school gardens and outdoor classrooms that honors the school's mission of learning and connecting students and staff to the sustainable world.

Lorri has a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois.

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