Thomas Woltz is the principal and owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects with offices in New York City and Charlottesville, VA. In 2011, he was invested into the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows, and named Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal in 2013.

Woltz and his firm have achieved a body of work that integrates the beauty and function of built form with an understanding of complex biological systems, revealing narratives of the land where people live, work and play. Current projects include Houston’s Memorial Park, Centennial Park in Nashville and Hudson Yards.