Kaye Lynn Johnson
Senior Vice President, Landscape Architecture and Design
Known for designs that express a place’s cultural identity, human history, and ecological qualities, Kaye Lynn Johnson leads the firm’s Landscape Architecture practice. One of the firm’s principals, Kaye Lynn brings a wealth of experience, imagination, and energy to her work and the company’s design group.
Kaye Lynn’s broad experience includes projects involving site design, park design, campus design, streetscapes, and multi-use trails. Recently she completed the master plan and design for the 47-acre Bartram’s Garden, one of Philadelphia’s most important greenspaces and the oldest surviving arboretum in North America. As the lead landscape architect for a 300,000 SF, nanotechnology research and development facility on MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory campus, Kaye Lynn’s site design incorporated aspects of compound semi-conductor production into the site design of retaining walls, entrance plaza, and promenade. As landscape architect for a 4.7-mile light rail extension project in Boston, Kaye Lynn led the creation of planting plans and entrance designs for station plazas. Serving as lead landscape architect for the mixed-use, transit-oriented Mattapan Station Redevelopment project, Kaye Lynn’s design embraces the history of the site as the location of the first paper mill in New England while creating open spaces that include a complete street, an outdoor plaza and lawn for small and large performances, informal gatherings and family play. For the 120-acre Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA, Kaye Lynn designed a campus plan and sculpture park in which she selected and sited thirty-two major pieces of art creating a sculpture walk throughout the campus.
In addition to her professional practice, Kaye Lynn is a teacher, having served on the faculties of Rhode Island School of Design and Rutgers University, where she taught design, site grading, and construction. Recently she was a guest lecturer at Kenyon College in a series entitled “The Art of Trees: A new social imaginary in the face of environmental crisis.”
Kaye Lynn was the recipient of a Community Service Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for her role in the Boston Schoolyards project. As lead designer for the Neponset River Master Plan and Trail Design, her work was critical to the project being awarded the Outstanding Master Plan Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects.
Kaye Lynn holds a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Kenyon College.
