principals

rachel johnston

Rachel’s professional background includes work with several Architectural and Landscape Architectural firms in New York and Berkeley, CA. As a designer and project manager for LEVENBETTS Architects, Rachel worked on a diverse range of projects from public to private, which included the design of an urban penthouse and terraces, minimalist country houses, museum exhibit design, and large-scale urban park design. At dlandstudio she worked on landscape projects addressing urban ecology and issues of responsible placemaking with campus master plans and townhouse gardens. In the the California Bay Area offices of Peter Walker and Partners and Tom Leader Studio Rachel worked respectively on highway improvement/beautification projects with CalTrans, and the master plan of Birmingham Alabama’s Railroad Park, where programmatic intervention was a key element in the successful revitalization of the once derelict space. 

Rachel has taught graduate level drawing for Ecology and Summer intensive drawing courses along with 700graduate level studio The Future of Death; speculative cemetery design at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a design critic for both Landscape Architecture and Architecture reviews at the University of Pennsylvania, and a design juror at Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture and the Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Landscape Architecture.

Rachel received a BS and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington and holds a Masters in Architecture and a Masters in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

meaghan lynch

Meaghan’s professional background includes work with New York City designers and teaching in America and abroad. As a designer and project manager at terrain-nyc, Meaghan worked on several projects that won awards from American Society of Landscape Architects. She has worked across scales of landscape architecture from LEED Gold urban greenroofs to regional master plans. At Peter Walker and Partners, in the Bay Area Meaghan worked on 9/11 Memorial. At Rigga, in Portland Oregon, Meaghan assisted in the fabrication of sculptural works along the East Bank Esplanade.

Meaghan’s has delivered courses at University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, Victoria University and Yestermorrow Design/Build School. She has been a critic at University of Pennsylvania, RISD, Cornell University, Syracuse University, Pratt Institute, Victoria University, Massey University and University of Vermont: Yestermorrow School. Classes she has taught include Design Thinking; Greenroof Design and Construction; Interdisciplinary Product Development; New York City Public Spaces-(Masters level traveling studio); Constructed Ecologies and Post Industrial Landscapes; Urban Food Production, Urban Technologies, and Strategies for Survival; Ecology for Designers; and The Future of Death; speculative cemetery design. 

Meaghan studied Art History at Reed College, her thesis focused on Constructions of Modernity in Museums. Meaghan holds a Masters in Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. Meaghan holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from University of Pennsylvania.