Pete is the co-founder of Siteworks in Charlottesville, a landscape architecture practice engaged in diverse works focused on the integration of cultural and ecological systems, spaces and processes. The studio sees its work as the product of a collaborative process involving architects, engineers, artists and the communities of the places where they work. All of the studio’s work seeks to create habitable and beautiful places for people to work and live that are ecologically intelligent and responsive to their context. The studio is currently working on projects throughout the United States and abroad. Pete is a Fellow of The American Academy in Rome having received the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship in 1995. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2007, he was named the Top Green Designer by the Virginia Sustainable Building Network. He has served on the both the architecture and landscape architecture faculties at the University of Virginia and has served as a guest lecturer and critic at the Ohio State University and at The University of Oregon. Pete and his wife Sara Wilson live and work in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlottesville with their three children (Patrick, Kyle and Rose) two dogs and one ageless cat.
Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, 1993
Registration, 2001 -- Landscape Architect, Virginia