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Lauren Stahl PLA

Associate Principal

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Lauren is an Associate Principal at CMG Landscape Architecture. With her dual interests in art and ecology, Lauren brings a passion for creating vibrant and playful urban landscapes – combining those interests to create warm, enjoyable and inspiring urban public spaces. Her early work on residential estates has given her the ability to experiment with materiality.

Lauren brings an eye for detail to her large-scale, public work, where she excels at guiding multi-disciplinary teams through every stage of the design and community engagement process. She works collaboratively with project teams to thoughtfully integrate technical requirements and client priorities with landscapes that are welcoming, beautiful and comfortable.

Lauren uses her leadership and confidence to further the knowledge and skillset of others, teaching at UC Berkeley’s Extension Landscape Architecture Program. Lauren holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from University of Wisconsin.

Selected Projects

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Petaluma River Park

parks/public space

Petaluma River Park is a 35-acre public park – a rare piece of undeveloped waterfront land in the heart of downtown Petaluma. Serving a broad and diverse group of residents and visitors from Petaluma, Sonoma County, and the Bay Area at large, the new park creates a common space that connects people, art, and nature. The project takes a thoughtful approach to park-making – collaborating with historically excluded communities to design a space centered on equity, accessibility, and shared stewardship.
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Stanford Computing + Data Science Building

campus

Positioned at the historic heart of campus, the Computing and Data Science Building (CoDa) is designed to promote collaboration and innovation. A series of social spaces encourage people to gather and linger, while allowing for the heavy pedestrian and bicycle circulation of a campus environment.
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Flood Park

parks/public space

Building on the collaborative engagement effort for Realize Flood Park, the revitalized landscape and park amenity improvements bring together a new unified vision that meets the ecological and social needs of the San Mateo community. Flood Park restores this neighborhood open space asset with a light and respectful design touch – preserving urban ecology through historical tree preservation, introducing a new successional tree planting and grasslands, while creating new recreational and social programming.
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Tilden Environmental Education Center

cultural

Amongst the 740-acre Tilden Nature Area, just north of Berkeley, sits the Environmental Education Center (EEC) – a beloved visitor’s center and museum that has educated generations of visitors about the diverse ecologies of the Tilden Nature Area and the surrounding East Bay Regional Park District. This opportunity to connect people to nature should start at the moment of arrival with the new landscape creating a welcoming experience that highlights and interprets the native plants, animals, and cultural histories of the park along a new network of accessible paths and trails.
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Treasure Island Parks + Open Space

parks/public space

Treasure Island is in transition from an abandoned naval base to a world-class destination – with new neighborhoods and public spaces that are socially active, environmentally progressive, and well-crafted. Since 2002, CMG has been a leading partner, shaping a public realm that includes innovative strategies for on-island stormwater treatment, urban agriculture, habitat reconstruction, environmental stewardship, and planning for future climate change.
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Realize Flood Park

engagement

Flood Park is a 25-acre park with a diverse mix of cultural, recreational, and ecological resources. For 86 years, it has been a favorite location for family and group picnics, community gatherings, a place for walks and bird watching, and a range of sports activities. Building on the Reimagine Flood Park planning process, CMG has joined with the San Mateo County Parks Department to realize the vision by developing an equitable community engagement process to inform and enrich the design.