With a background in the arts, Hallie’s focus is the design and planning of landscapes inspired by the intersections of art, history, and ecology, creating greater social and physical resiliency for cultural institutions, universities, municipalities, and communities both in the US and abroad. Her passion is creating educational opportunities through the medium of landscape to engage future generations on the key issues of climate change, adaptive re-use, biodiversity and environmental justice. Hallie’s designs connect people to one another, to their communities, and to the natural world and its systems.

Her diverse and award-winning portfolio includes projects of various scales and typologies, including urban plazas, gardens, parks, university campuses, and public waterfronts. She led the design for the Folger Shakespeare Library grounds on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to create an inclusive and accessible, educational landscape highlighting Shakespeare’s love of nature; the National Geographic Headquarters Base Camp in DC, a landscape focused on world biomes and biodiversity; the 11th Street Bridge Park, a destination landscape in DC focused on intersection of the health of the Anacostia River and its adjacent neighborhoods; and Currie Park, a resiliency hub and public access on the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach, Florida that celebrates local ecology. Resiliency planning projects include the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of American History. Her notable realized projects include the Folger Shakespeare Library, Carnegie Mellon’s Scaife Hall for Engineering, the new U.S. Embassy in London, as well as the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, and Spirit of Women Park in Columbus, Ohio.

As a Trustee for the National Building Museum Hallie advocates for the critical role of design in transforming the quality of life in our city centers, especially through the crafting of the public realm. She is also a Member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for her alma mater, the University of Virginia School of Architecture, concerned with mentorship and support of the next generation of designers. She has taught at the University of Virginia, Temple University, and Howard University and at the University of Pennsylvania she led a studio exploring the potential of designed landscapes as catalysts to sustainably transform the culture and ecology of rural towns along the Czech-Austrian border. Hallie holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Art degree in Art History from Bucknell University.