Chris Canning

We specialize in tying Ecology into EVERY landscape project artfully and improve environmental resilience, while orchestrating partnerships with significantly diverse community groups, city, state and federal bureaucracy. Regularly implement the principles of restoration ecology, sustainable design and environmentally sound stormwater management practices in work.

Chris Canning is a registered landscape architect and ecological designer with international experience and a instructor at Queens University. Sustainable design, that integrates green infrastructure into the urban landscape, has been his focal point. Chris’ work ranges in scales and typologies from the Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT - Cambridge, MA and the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH to the Milton Hershey School Campus - Hershey, PA.

As a landscape architect, Chris has practiced landscape architecture with the internationally recognized firms Andropogon Associates and Olin Partnership in Philadelphia, PA. At Olin, Chris mentored with Laurie Olin, awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the ASLA Medal.

I design with hand sketches on paper and digitally on an IPad with Morpholio Trace and Procreate, with models and with watercolor paintings. Hand drawing is a tool to be still and creatively solve problems with a big idea.

At the nonprofit Delaware Center for Horticulture, Wilmington, DE, Chris designed green space for urban heat island mitigation and stormwater management in underprivileged urban neighbourhoods. Chris has lectured at the University of Guelph, been a invited juror at Philadelphia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he co-taught Regional Planning with Professor Phil Lewis Jr., awarded the ASLA Medal.

Education
Bachelor of Education, Magna cum Laude
University of Ottawa

Master of Science in Landscape Architecture
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Honors
University of Guelph

Edinburgh College of Art (Semester Abroad)

Memberships/Registrations

Full Member with Stamp Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects

Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Board

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

Volunteer Experience
OALA Ground Magazine Editorial Board

Abbreviated Project Experience

Acme Grocery Store Parking Lot
Heat Island and Stormwater Mitigation, Wilmington, DE

Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Frank and Maria Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Franklin D Roosevelt Springwood Estate, Visitor Orientation Facility and Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY

Keystone Building Capital Complex, Landscape on Structure, Harrisburg, PA

Milton Hershey Elementary and High School Campus Masterplan, Hershey, PA

Ottawa City Courthouse Greenroof, Ottawa, ON

Paper Mill Run Stream Riparian Restoration and Demonstration Project - Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Stormwater Management Guidelines, Watercolor Westport, Traditional Neighborhood Development Westport, ON

Courtyard Sculpture and Fountain, Carre Saint-Louis Apartment Complex, Lepine Corporation, Ottawa, ON

Stewart Village Redevelopment, Brockville, ON

Chris Canning

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