Thomas Woltz will present a lecture titled “Narratives of Ecology: Recent Work of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Woltz, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is the owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Working between offices in Virginia and New York, he has led designs of a broad range of institutional projects in the United States and abroad, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection sculpture garden in Venice, Italy; Google corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.; the National Arboretum of New Zealand; Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s west side; and a master plan for the conservation of 42,000 acres of Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles.

He received a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Architecture, both from the University of Virginia.

Woltz has also led design work on private gardens and farmland in a dozen states and New Zealand over 16 years of practice.

Contemporary design applied to restoration ecology is at the heart of the Conservation Agriculture Studio, within Nelson Byrd Woltz, and has yielded hundreds of acres of reconstructed wetlands, reforested land, native meadow, and flourishing wildlife habitat – all of which support soil and water conservation. Many of these projects focus on restoration of damaged ecological infrastructure within working farmland and create models of biodiversity and sustainable agriculture.

Woltz also serves on the board of directors of The Cultural Landscape Foundation and the Municipal Art Society of New York. He is an avid gardener.

The public is invited to attend this lecture. Admission is free, with limited seating.

For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.