After graduation our students are pursuing careers in professional landscape architecture offices as well as other landscape-related firms and organizations in which their wide range of creative and communicative skills are in demand.
Our students are employed nationally and internationally. We have an ever-increasing footprint in the United States and are constantly working with our Center for Student Development to forge new connections with firms looking for future leaders in the field.
UTLA Alums: Where are They Now?
The following is a partial list of the firms and organizations where UTLA alums currently work or have worked in the past:
A2H, Knoxville, TN
Adam Sokol Architectural Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Asakura Robinson, Austin, TX
Avalon Golf and Country Club, Knoxville, TN
Ayers Saint Gross, Baltimore, MD
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Chattanooga & Knoxville, TN
Belt Collins International, Hong Kong, China
Benefield Richters, Knoxville, TN
Black Willow Design, Portland, OR
BrightView Landscape Development, Lawrenceville, GA
Catalyst Design Group, Nashville, TN
Carducci Associates, San Francisco, CA
Chandler Design and Planning, LLC, Knoxville, TN
Chen Moore & Associates, Orlando, FL
City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Craig Design Group, Chattanooga, TN
CRJA-IBI Group, Knoxville, TN
Cultivate Sourcing Group, Knoxville, TN
Daniel Woodroffe Group, Austin, TX
Design Workshop, Aspen+Denver, CO + Chicago, IL
Dix.Hite + Partners, Longwood, FL + Birmingham, AL
Edward Stone Jr. and Associates, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
EJ Smith Construction Company, The Colony, TX
ESa, Nashville, TN
Fazio Design, Hendersonville, NC
FFKR Architects, Salt Lake City, UT
firma, Nashville, TN
Flad Architects, Tampa, FL
Greenline Design, Charlotte, NC
Gresham Smith, Nashville, TN
Harrah’s Cherokee Resort, Whittier, NC
Hawkins Partners, Inc., Nashville, TN
HDLA, Nashville, TN
Hedstrom Design, Knoxville, TN
HillWorks, Auburn, AL
Hodge Engineering, Knoxville, TN
Hood Design Group, Oakland, CA
HZS design LTD, Shanghai, China
IBI Placemaking, Knoxville, TN
Kimley Horn, Orlando, FL
Kerns Land Planning and Design, Asheville, NC
KGA DeForest Design, Katy, TX
Knox County Health Department, Knoxville, TN
Knox County Parks and Recreation, Oak Ridge, TN
Kudela & Weinheimer Landscape Architecture, Houston, TX
Land Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Lawn Butler, Knoxville, TN
Leblanc Jones Landscape Architects, Boston, MA
LITTLEJOHN, Nashville, TN
Marquis, Latimer & Halback, St. Augustine, FL
Mergoat Land Design and Restoration, Knoxville, TN
Mikyoung Kim, Boston, MA
MNLA, New York City, NY
Moriyama & Teshima, Toronto, Canada
National Park Service, Boonsboro, MD
Nequette Architecture & Design, Birmingham, AL
Office of James Burnett (OJB), Boston, MA
Omni Ecosystems, Chicago, IL
Perkins + Will, Atlanta, GA
Peter Walker Partners, Berkeley, CA
Pond & Company, Atlanta, GA
Prodigium Corp, Las Vegas, NV
Ragan Smith Associates, Nashville, TN
Ratio Architects, Indianapolis, IN
Raymond Jungles, Inc., Coconut Grove, FL
Ross/Fowler, Knoxville, TN
Sanders Pace, Knoxville, TN
Sasaki, Denver, CO
Scape, New Orleans, LA
Seamon Whiteside Associates, Mt. Pleasant, SC
SFCF, Philadelphia, PA
Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, Chicago, IL
SmithGee, Nashville, TN
StudioJAED, Bear, Delaware
Stewart, Inc, Charlotte, NC
Stoss, Boston, MA
Tennessee RiverLine, Knoxville, TN
The Shed, Maryville, TN
Tharp Design, Morristown, TN
ThreeCubed, Knoxville, TN
TMPartners, Brentwood, TN
T-Square Engineering, Nashville, TN
University of Auburn, Department of Landscape Architecture, Auburn, AL
University of Tennessee, Facilities Services, Knoxville, TN
UNLV School of Architecture, Las Vegas, NV
W.M.Whitaker & Associates, Chattanooga, TN
2.ink studio, Portland, OR
INTERNSHIPS
During their course of study at UTLA, students are provided with multiple opportunities to engage in internships with our growing network of professional design offices, research organizations, non-profits, and design build firms, among others. The following is a partial list of organizations that have hosted UTLA student interns:
Agency Landscape and Planning, Cambridge, MA
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Chattanooga, TN
BrightView, Denver, CO
CRJA-IBI Group, Knoxville, TN
Design Workshop, Chicago, IL
Edward Stone Jr. and Associates, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Fazio Design, Hendersonville, NC
FFKR Architects, Salt Lake City, UT
Hawkins Partners, Inc., Nashville, TN
HDLA, Nashville, TN
Hedstrom Design, Knoxville, TN
HillWorks, Auburn, AL
Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Botanic Garden and Arboretum, Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Parks & Recreation, Knoxville, TN
Moseley Architects, Charlotte, NC
Nashville Civic Design Center, Nashville, TN
Perkins + Will, Atlanta, GA
Ragan Smith Associates, Nashville, TN
Ross/Fowler, Knoxville, TN
RVI, Orlando, FL
SandersPace, Knoxville, TN
Scape, New York, NY
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago, IL
Stephen W. Hackney Landscape Architecture, Knoxville, TN
Stoss, Boston, MA
Surfacedesign, San Francisco, CA
Tennessee RiverLine, Knoxville, TN
University of Tennessee Environmental Design Lab, Knoxville, TN
WMWA, Chattanooga, TN
EXTERNSHIPS
Interested students at UTLA are able to pursue an externship with a growing network of offices across the country. An externship is generally a one to two week period during which a student works in an office to gain a better understanding of the professional design office environment as well as how contemporary designers work. Students generally target the winter break of their second or third year of the MLA degree to pursue these opportunities. Currently, UTLA has externship relationships with the following firms, and we are always working with additional firms to try and give our students a wide range of offices to choose from:
Andropogon, Philadelphia, PA
Bionic, San Francisco, CA
Civitas, Inc, Denver, CO
Design Workshop, Aspen, CO
Dix.Hite, Atlanta, GA
Equinox, Asheville, NC
Firma Studio, Nashville, TN
Future Firm, Chicago, IL
HDLA, Nashville, TN
Landworks Studio, Boston, MA
Merritt Chase, Pittsburgh, PA
Metro Nashville Planning Department, Nashville, TN
Moseley Architects, Charlotte, NC
Nelson Byrd Woltz, Charlottesville, VA
PORT, Chicago, IL
Reed Hilderbrand, Cambridge, MA
Richard Mandell Golf Architecture, Pinehurst, NC
RVI, Tampa, FL
Sanders Pace Architecture, Knoxville, TN
SOM, Chicago, IL
Stimson, Cambridge, MA
Stoss, Boston, MA
Surfacedesign, San Francisco, CA
WMWA, Chattanooga, TN