Lauren Cantrell

Education

Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Biography

Lauren Cantrell, PLA, ASLA, is a Landscape Architect and the founder and owner of DELINEATOR. Her experience spans the globe on a broad range of award-winning landscape architecture, urban design, and planning projects that focus on environmental sustainability and material craft. She credits the strength of her most successful work to her ability to curate strong collaborations with clients, architects, artists, stakeholders, engineers, and communities. In every project, Cantrell focuses on strengthening the connection between people and place to develop the groundwork for long-lasting, exceptional spaces that express harmony between communities and natural systems. She is a registered Landscape Architect in Texas, Virginia, and Maryland and has extensive knowledge in constructing work in North Texas. Cantrell believes that great design begins with analytical forensics to gain an understanding of a site’s intricacies and relationship to context as a way to tell the story of ‘place’ from the site’s cultural, social, economic, and environmental needs. 

Since the opening of her firm, DELINEATOR, in 2017, her approach and projects have garnered eight Texas ASLA Awards including The Plaza at Solana in the Town of Westlake, Texas, a renovation of an original design for IBM’s North Texas Campus by Peter Walker Partners and Ricardo Legorreta. In 2023, The Virginia Chapter of ASLA recognized Cottonwood Creeks: A Sustainable Vision Plan with an Award of Merit in the Analysis and Planning Category. She led this 300-acre urban design project with her team to center sustainable and local development around a productive landscape and restored floodplain to create an open space that cleansed, captured and re-used stormwater and graywater. 

In parallel to her professional practice she is also involved in a broad range of activities including participation on roundtables, advisory boards, and committees with a focus on equitable, environmental, and innovative urban design collaboration. She joined the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture as an Assistant Professor of Practice in 2024.