EDAW, Inc. is an international urban design, planning, landscape architecture, environmental and economic development consultancy offering a unique set of inter-disciplinary design services. We specialize in preparing visions and strategies which establish a sense of place. Our special emphasis on the broad and increasingly complex issues of land planning and design, married to the rigor of sound economic and market assessment, has produced many successful and award winning projects around the world.

We are world leaders in the research and creative application of users’ needs to the design of sites and cities. Our clients are the owners and occupiers of property and are from a diverse cross section of industry and public sectors. Many are international businesses, governments, institutions or municipalities with aspirations to achieve world-class standards in the making of their urban environments. We provide consistent global knowledge and services for clients, delivered locally from our international network of offices.

PRACTICE
EDAW’s origins date to 1939, when Garrett Eckbo and Edward Williams formed an informal partnership to practice landscape architecture, urban design, and planning. Eckbo, a leading proponent of modernist design, and Williams, a land planner, were among the first to recognize their disciplinary services as a means to reconnect people to place, in the years of technological, social, and industrial upheaval in the aftermath of World War II. By the close of the war, they had established a forward-thinking, collaborative practice with a reputation for producing outstanding work. Eckbo, Dean, Austin and Williams – the names from which EDAW is derived – incorporated in March of 1967. The collaborative practice was grown to incorporate environmental, economics, and resource management capabilities. Today, EDAW has grown to 25 offices and over 1000 staff worldwide.

PHILOSOPHY
Our firm is interested in significant work, not measured by size, but by relevance to a project’s impact on its community and setting. We apply our inter-disciplinary skills to the development of solutions to complex urban design and urban regeneration problems in a variety of urban situations where the normal cycles of urban change, mandate creative adaptations for new uses. EDAW’s urban design and regeneration specialists often take the lead in economic and program planning as well as physical and environmental design and implementation. Through the application of our professional skills, we strive to improve the quality of the relationship between people and their environment throughout the world. Please visit the firm’s website www.edaw.com.

MANAGEMENT
The New York City Office is led by Principals Timothy N. Delorm, ASLA and William B. Kuhl, FASLA, both registered landscape architects in New York. Mr. Delorm has more than twenty years of experience in urban design, site planning, and landscape architectural design in the northeast region, and Mr. Kuhl is a registered landscape architect in 12 states, with more than 35 years of professional experience. The NY office has seventeen professional staff and is supported a total staff of more than 1000 firmwide.

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