Hannah Brown

Education

MLA, University of Virginia
Bachelor of Sustainable Engineering Design, Stanford University

Biography

Hannah Jane Brown, PLA, is a Project Designer at Wolf Josey Landscape Architects based in Charlottesville. 
She practices landscape architecture in the pursuit of more joy-filled and just futures. Through her work, she enjoys revealing latent histories to develop 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.

Hannah previously worked at the U.S. Green Building Council and at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. At the University of Virginia, Hannah has taught community-engaged research studios. Prior to joining Wolf Josey, she gained landscape design experience working at Jones & Jones and Nelson Byrd Woltz. She holds a Bachelor’s of Sustainable Engineering Design from Stanford University, and a Master’s of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia.