In every project, Lauren focuses on strengthening the connection between people and place to develop the groundwork for long-lasting, exceptional spaces. Her passion lies in the collaboration + relationships with clients and the communities they serve.

LAUREN FASIC CANTRELL, PLA, ASLA

PRINCIPAL, FOUNDER

Lauren Cantrell, PLA, ASLA, is a Landscape Architect and the co-founder and owner of DELINEATOR. Her experience spans the globe on a broad range of award-winning landscape architecture, urban design, and planning projects that focus on environmental sustainability and material craft. She credits the strength of her most successful work to her ability to curate strong collaborations with clients, architects, artists, stakeholders, engineers, and communities. In every project, Cantrell focuses on strengthening the connection between people and place to develop the groundwork for long-lasting, exceptional spaces that express harmony between communities and natural systems. She is a registered Landscape Architect in Texas, Virginia, and Maryland and has extensive knowledge in constructing work in North Texas.

Cantrell believes that great design begins with analytical forensics to gain an understanding of a site’s intricacies and relationship to context as a way to tell the story of ‘place’ from the site’s cultural, social, economic, and environmental needs.

Since the opening of her firm, DELINEATOR, in 2017, her approach and projects have garnered eight Texas ASLA Awards including The Plaza at Solana in the Town of Westlake, Texas, a renovation of an original design for IBM’s North Texas Campus by Peter Walker Partners and Ricardo Legorreta. In 2023, The Virginia Chapter of ASLA recognized Cottonwood Creeks: A Sustainable Vision Plan with an Award of Merit in the Analysis and Planning Category. She led this 300-acre urban design project with her team to center sustainable and local development around a productive landscape and restored floodplain to create an open space that cleansed, captured and re-used stormwater and graywater.

Lauren leads the design and operations of DELINEATOR. She is responsible for the execution and delivery of design services, client relations and business operations including leading the design studio in Dallas and Charlottesville.

In parallel to her professional practice she is also involved in a broad range of activities including participation on roundtables, advisory boards, and committees with a focus on equitable, environmental, and innovative urban design collaboration. She joined the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Practice in 2024.

Lauren dedicates her time to teaching and practice between Texas and Virginia and enjoys visiting the Shenandoah National Park and The Trinity River Forest.

Qiuming is passionate about researching the natural, cultural and social attributes of sites. She uses her research-based analysis and thinking to develop her design approach.

QIUMING LI, ASLA

LANDSCAPE DESIGNER

Qiuming was a Summer and Fall intern designer with DELINEATOR in 2022 and has been a key member already on many projects before joining full-time in early 2023.

Qiuming has earned her Masters of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. She has studied Landscape Architecture since her undergraduate and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering in China.

What attracts Qiuming to practicing landscape architecture is the complexity and diversity. She is passionate about researching the natural, cultural and social attributes of sites. She uses her research-based analysis and thinking to develop her design approach. Her interest in interacting with nature and the physical world helps her understand the importance of temporality in landscape phenomena. Qiuming is exceptionally talented in graphic communication, 3-D modeling and site investigation.  She is currently invested in further developing her abilities to express design thinking in a more artistic way. Qiuming loves to make beautiful drawings of plants in her daily life and has a exceptional hobby in baking and photographing her process artistically on her Instagram.

Qiuming will be working in the Charlottesville office while also traveling to Texas for site visits, client meetings, and community engagement.

Celina is fascinated with understanding the urban condition and aspires to use her skills in landscape architecture to design for quality of life, social justice, and environmental resilience in urban places.

CELINA QIU

INTERN LANDSCAPE DESIGNER

Celina Qiu is currently an intern through Spring 2024 and has been a Summer + Fall ‘23 intern landscape designer working at the Charlottesville office of DELINEATOR.  She is currently pursuing her Masters of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia with a certificate in urban design. Prior to this, she studied architecture at the University of Toronto and obtained several years of experience working in residential landscape design projects across Ontario.

As a proud Hongkonger, she is also carrying out a research project on the city’s water infrastructure, planning history, and public perception, funded by the 2023 Benjamin C. Howland Travel Fellowship and has written about the city’s urban experience for the LUNCH journal. She travels frequently between Hong Kong, Canada and the US and is an avid hiker and runner which allows her to explore different neighborhoods and natural settings. Celina is fascinated with understanding the urban condition and aspires to use her skills in landscape architecture to design for quality of life, social justice, and environmental resilience in urban places.

In her coursework, she loves to take the opportunity to understand the history and culture of a place and represent them vigorously through a method of hybrid drawings, collages, and thick sections. She prioritizes the design of specific experiential moments that allow people to connect with each other and the environment around them whilst situating them as part of a larger working system. Curiously driven and with a strong graphic ability, Celina’s drawings are both aesthetically impactful, detailed, and informative.

Brad’s focus in practice and body of research examines dynamic landscapes that are in states of change and develops innovative approaches that use collaborations between science, engineering, and design to develop resilient environments.

BRADLEY CANTRELL, ASLA, FAAR

DESIGNER, RESEARCHER

Bradley Cantrell is a collaborator to the DELINEATOR team. He is a landscape designer and scholar whose 20 years of work experience focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design. He has held academic appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Rhode Island School of Design, Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, and is currently Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. The predominant focus of the work has been in coastal and riverine landscapes, using modeling and illustration to highlight complex environmental issues. Likewise, the research also incorporates the use of environmental sensors to develop ways that data may be incorporated more deeply in the design of resilient coastal landscapes. His work in Louisiana over the past decade points to a series of methodologies that develop modes of modeling, simulation, and embedded computation that express and engage the complexity of overlapping physical, cultural, and economic systems. Cantrell’s work has been presented and published in a range of peer-reviewed venues internationally including ACADIA, CELA, EDRA, ASAH, and ARCC.

Cantrell’s research and teaching focuses on digital film, simulation (modeling), and responsive technologies to examine landscape form, process, and phenomenology. His body of research examines dynamic landscapes that are in states of change and develops innovative approaches that use collaborations between science, engineering, and design to develop resilient environments.

HANNAH CANTRELL

INTERN LANDSCAPE DESIGNER

Hannah Cantrell is a summer intern landscape designer working at the Charlottesville office of DELINEATOR.  She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Kentucky. She has a lifelong interest in design and has worked as a curator and creator for a broad range of vintage lifestyle brands, including her own store, Good Taste Studio.

Her interests in landscape architecture focus on the creation of spaces that integrate biology within environments that produce curiosity within the quotidian. She is a passionate book nerd and food enthusiast that appreciates unique aesthetics that challenge our view of traditional beauty in the built environment.