About

Lauren Todd Stimson is a Filipina American landscape architect living and working in New England.

The themes of wildness, nostalgia and belonging inspire all of her work and way of life. The unseen elements of the landscape always inform her design process. She thinks about painting the way she thinks about horticulture; as a series of layers and explorations of form, color, pattern and emotion that eventually come into balance.

She has a Masters in Landscape Architecture and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and studied Theater and Geology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where she was a Benjamin E. Mays Scholar. She is a licensed Landscape Architect in Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Rhode Island and a Partner at the landscape architecture firm, STIMSON. She is the 2024 Gilmore D. Clark and Michael I. Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome.

Alongside her family, she runs Charbrook Farm and Nursery in Princeton, MA in Nipmuc territory at the base of Brown Hill and Mount Wachusett.

Photo by Claudia Gori