Gina Ford, FASLA
Principal Landscape Architect, Agency Landscape + Planning

Gina Ford is a landscape architect, co-founder, and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, exhibitions, teaching, writing and lecturing.

Ford’s work encompasses a wide range of scales and project types, from public parks and plazas to large-scale landscape planning and waterfront projects. She brings to each project a passion for the process of making vibrant landscape spaces—from the conceptual design to the details of implementation—with a particular focus on the life and use of urban, public environments. Ford led the design of the Chicago Riverwalk, Boston’s Lawn On D, Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs Iowa, and Moore Square in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her strategic planning efforts include Flood Recovery Planning for the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Rebuild by Design Competition, and the Changing Course Competition while a principal with Sasaki. Her work with Agency includes the White River Vision Plan for Hamilton and Marion Counties, Indiana, Boulevard Crossing Park on the Atlanta BeltLine, and Bayfront Park in Sarasota, Florida.

Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association, and the American Institute of Architects, among others. Ford is on the Stewardship Council of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, having previously served on its Board of Directors. She was the recipient of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship and the Wellesley College Harriet A. Shaw Fellowship. Agency Landscape + Planning is the recipient of the 2018 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize.

Ford is an avid advocate for diversity and inclusion with emphasis on gender justice and equality. Her work in this realm includes the formation and leadership of WxLA – an advocacy initiative manifest in the first-ever Women’s Landscape Equality (re)Solution and the 2019 WxLA Scholarship.

High Line Canal Framework Plan, Denver, CO. Image courtesy of Agency Landscape + Planning.