Hannah Jane Brown, Project Designer
Hannah practices landscape architecture in the pursuit of more joy-filled and just futures. Through her work, she enjoys revealing latent histories and developing place-attuned and ecologically resilient landscapes.
Curiosity about the ways our built environments have been used to bolster particular stories while burying others has shaped Hannah’s focus on cultural landscapes. Hannah strives to translate each site’s complexity and particular beauty into grounded spatial experiences, material expressions, and design details. She honed this ability through her graduate thesis work on the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, VA, where she worked in collaboration with activists and descendants to develop site interpretations and designs.
After years of working in the agricultural and conservation sphere, Hannah values every opportunity to work with plants to restore resilient and place-attuned landscapes. She is particularly invested in design approaches that celebrate landscape dynamism, respect the inherent agency of flora and fauna, and appreciate the role of maintenance in shaping thriving natural systems.
Hannah previously worked at the U.S. Green Building Council and at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Prior to joining Wolf Josey, Hannah taught a community-engaged research studio at the University of Virginia, and gained landscape design experience working at Jones & Jones and Nelson Byrd Woltz.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
University Avenue Park at UVA, Charlottesville, VA
William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, VA
Smithsonian Gardens Tree Fence, Washington, D.C.
Riverview Park, Charlottesville, VA
AWARDS
Olmsted Scholar, 2022
ASLA Certificate of Merit, 2022
Virginia ASLA Commendation Award for “Recomposition”, 2020