Title: Founding Principal
Company: Bishop Land Design LLC
Location: Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
Scott Foster Bishop, founding principal at Bishop Land Design LLC, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Business Owners for dedication, achievements, and leadership in architecture and design.
With nearly three decades of experience, Mr. Bishop has built a successful career in architecture and design, specializing in landscape architecture, human ecology, and large-scale master planning. He currently excels as the founding principal of Bishop Land Design LLC, a role he has held since 2015, where he oversees the team, directs design work, and manages all bookkeeping. Bishop Land Design LLC focuses on a human ecological approach, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change, climate resilience, and related issues such as urban heat islands, sea level rise, wildfires, and the biodiversity crisis. Initially concentrating on public works like parks and plazas, the firm now also specializes in residential, commercial, institutional, and educational projects, as well as large-scale master planning with an emphasis on green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. In his role, he is dedicated to integrating human ecology principles into landscape architecture, examining how humans interact with their environment and emphasizing the need to mitigate these impacts. His aim is to enhance productivity within environmental contexts by reducing the adverse effects of human activities and fostering beneficial relationships between people and the natural world through thoughtful landscape design.
Mr. Bishop’s experience also includes serving as committee chair of the Climate Action Committee for the American Society of Landscape Architects from 2020 to 2022, professor of the practice in the Urban Landscape Program at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University from 2016 to 2022, and a visiting associate teaching professor in the College of Arts, Media, and Design in the Greater Boston Area from 2015 to 2016. Additionally, he was a resident expert at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities from 2014 to 2016 and principal at Stoss Landscape Urbanism from 2005 to 2015. Additionally, he served as a guest critic at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico from 2013 to 2015, a visiting critic at Syracuse University School of Architecture in 2015, a lecturer at Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design, School of Architecture from 2014 to 2015, and a Cejas Eminent Scholar at Florida International University in 2013. He was also a design grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2012, a guest critic at The Catholic University of America in 2012, a critic at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, a studio critic at Boston Architectural College and The Hideo Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic for StossLU from 2009 to 2010, and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2010. He has also worked as a designer at Utile Inc. in 2005, a recreational landscape planner at the National Park Service in 2004, as a designer at Foglia Design Associates from 1999 to 2002, and an intern with GMB Architects and Engineers from 1995 to 1996.
Mr. Bishop has held several memberships, including as subcommittee chair of the Climate Action Network and immediate past chair of the Biodiversity and Climate Action Committee at the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is also an advisory committee member to the Climate Chair at the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and the sailing director of the Junior Sailing Program at the Quincy Yacht Club and he engages in pro bono community work, including park maintenance. Additionally, he has been honored with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, named a Top 10 Urban Planning Services Provider by the Real Estate Business Review in 2022, and received a Merit Award for The Berm Project from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. He was also recognized as a Champion of Champions for the People at Kincaide Park and awarded Third Place by the National Association for Interpretation for Expedition Blue, Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. Laying a solid educational foundation for these successes, Mr. Bishop earned a Bachelor of Arts in human ecology, art, and design from the College of the Atlantic in 1997 and a master’s degree in landscape architecture and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in 2005. He attributes his success to his human ecological approach and his perseverance, and in the coming years, he is dedicated to continuing to bring larger projects to life.
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