Glen Valentine, FASLA, LEED AP
Principal
Glen is a landscape architect with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field. He started his career in Annapolis, Maryland, designing public spaces celebrating the history and ecology of the Chesapeake Bay region. After relocating to Boston, he has continued to explore the narrative and sculptural potential of landscape form in public spaces, including campuses, parks, arboreta, and memorials. Glen’s design skill also extends to the community and civic engagement that is integral to design in the public realm. His projects have been celebrated with numerous awards by the New England Society of Historic Preservation, the Society of College and University Planners, the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, and the American Society of Landscape Architects, including the ASLA Award of Excellence for the M. Victor and Frances Leventritt Garden at the Arnold Arboretum.
His current practice includes several major public parks in Albany, NY; a new public library for Belmont MA; and campus design and master planning at Williams College, Harvard University, MIT, Hamilton College, and Boston College. Glen’s real strength is in building the long-term relationships needed with institutional and public clients to resolve the complex challenges they face as institutions and as partners in their greater communities. Most recently he worked with Boston College to restore more than five acres of woodland and open it to the greater Boston community as a unique woodland park. He also continues to explore planting design and refine the detailing and craftsmanship of garden building in residential projects throughout the Northeast. Glen previously worked for Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, Graham Landscape Architecture, and Sasaki Associates.
Glen received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College where he studied urban planning, art history and sculpture and earned his master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Virginia. He continues to participate in the diverse academic life of the New England area by serving as a design critic, teaching studios, and lecturing at area universities including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural College, Northeastern University and Roger Williams University. Glen has also delivered lectures at conferences hosted by the BLSA, ASLA and SCUP in collaboration with engineers, soil scientists, architects, and his institutional partners.
An avid gardener, Glen uses his own garden as a laboratory to test new formal ideas, experiment with perennials, create unique microclimates and ecologies, and provide areas for an annual fruit harvest from his urban orchard. Drawing and storytelling are a personal passion, and they provide him with creative outlets for exploring other aspects of graphic and narrative design. Glen lives in Belmont, MA with his wife and sons, and is a proud two-time winner of the Annual Valentine Apple Pie Contest.
Glen has been with STIMSON since 2007 and is a licensed Landscape Architect and LEED Certified Professional.