PERSONAL STATEMENT
Core values that define me are excellence, curiosity and service to others. They’ve been informed and honed through a decade of valuable experience gained working across a diverse range of industries since graduating from St. Lawrence University in 2015. The combination of a BFA and an MLA, along with 10+ years of work experience, prepares me to excel in a new career path in the world of design/planning + landscape architecture.
Being part of nature-based-solutions that advance long-term human and ecological health while working to transform communities is what excites me. Creating and delivering life-supporting, eco-effective environments that build relationships with people and their landscapes, that foster beauty, sustainability and community define my professional vision
and personal priorities.
Trained as an artist, with a heart and passion for ecology and natural systems. In 2015, Hannah earned a BA from St. Lawrence University in Fine Art, Art History, Outdoor Studies/Sustainability, & English. Hannah is a Rochester, New York native who spent a period of time living and working in the North Country and the Adirondack region of New York State as well as Cortona, Italy in the heart of Tuscany. Both worlds; their people, landscapes, communities and ways of life; changed me forever.
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After ten years of professional experience across a diverse range of industries; education, business entrepreneurship, local farm to urban community CSA distribution, commercial wood working, hospitality, marketing and sales, design, naturopathic medicine, strength + conditioning, health coaching, and nursery/landscaping work.
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As of Spring 2026, I am completing my final semester as a graduate student in the Master's of Landscape Architecture program at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, this website serves as an overview of who I am, my background personally and professionally, and a catalog of work during this degree.
ARTIST 2010-2015
TEACHER
MAKER
ENTREPRENUER 2015-2021
HEALTH COACH
COMPANY MANAGER 2021-2023
MLA STUDENT 2023-2026
LANDSCAPER 2023-2025​
With gratitude,
Hannah Brook Smith
01 Portfolio
My portfolio highlights a range of outcomes through exploring workflows and curiosity for process. Depending on the type of project and the type of skills learned and practiced, my work reflects a variety of goals based on specific prompts and design goals. ​My graphic language is continuously developing. I aim to design for best possible long-term ecological effectiveness married with positive human health outcomes, grounding myself in pragmatic realities while envisioning the magic that landscape brings, in all places for all beings.
Stone Quarry Art Park Project Visualization, Cazenovia, New York | Fall 2025
02 Buzz Words
Regenerative Design, Adaptive Reuse, Environmental Justice, Participatory Design, Public Health through Ecological Health, Circular Flows, Sustainable Material Management, Community Enriched, Interconnected Living Systems, Messy Networks and Innovative Possibilities.
03 Design Manifesto
Where art, ecology and infrastructure meet and marry. Ethical land use and planning, regenerative living systems thinking, economic and ecological equity, community development, positive public health outcomes, resilient systems, rethinking how we live, make, grow, play and work and the spaces in which we do all these things. Creating places that improve human and non-human lives over time rather than degrade them.