C L A U D I A D I N E P PRINCIPAL + FOUNDER
"After a rich + fulfilling proper 'desk job' in landscape architecture, I recently committed to spending more time designing outside in the plant world.
I design landscapes, and now often also install, monitor and tend whole plant communities: beautiful, resilient, sustainable environments - with overall better design outcomes for my clients."
BIOGRAPHY
Claudia Dinep is founding principal of OUTSIDE Landscape Architecture + Ecological Design.
She is a registered and licensed landscape architect in Connecticut, USA, is United States Green Building Council Sustainable Sites Initiative, SITES AP certified, and has researched + practiced ecological landscape design for over 27 years.
Claudia’s hallmark is her expansive mindset toward designing beautiful and sustainable spaces at every scale - from small details to broad conceptual ideas in backyard gardens to parks and preserves, universities, vineyards, visitor centers, hospitals and healing gardens.
Claudia is committed to sustainability - social, cultural, environmental, and to education and outreach. Between 2005-2010, she partnered with landscape architect Kristin Schwab, and embarked on a five-year book-writing journey that took them across the US in search of built examples of the very best sustainable site design projects from Virginia, Connecticut, Minnesota, Arizona to Oregon. Titled, Sustainable Site Design, this book is part of the Wiley Sustainable Design Series of professional resource books and has been used in academic and professional settings throughout the world.
Claudia is thrilled to be back on home turf in West Hartford, Connecticut where she has lifelong connections + a deep understanding of the local ecology.
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Master of Landscape Architecture
University of Connecticut, Bachelor of Science in Landscape Design
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Founding Principal Outside Landscape Architecture LLC, Connecticut
Founding Principal Dinep+Schwab LLC, Connecticut
Founding Principal Reaves|Dinep, North Carolina
Principal Rolf Sauer & Partners, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Senior Landscape Designer Olin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Landscape Designer Andropogon Associates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
RESIDENCIES, LECTURES, AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS
Exhibition: Into the Woods, Chester Gallery
Artist-In-Residence Award: Scope Berlin, Berlin Germany
Land Art Generator Initiative: Competition Finalist, Willimantic CT
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Competition: Semi-Finalist, Newtown CT
CTGBC Awards - Jury Member
Publication: In Healthcare, Outdoor Settings Matter, www.hartfordbusiness.com 2017Merit Award of Special Recognition: NC ASLA [w/Reaves|Dinep]
Honor Award: The Healing Garden, CT ALSA, [w/Studio Pagliai]
Interdisciplinary Leadership in Energy Efficiency, LEED/SSI Advisory Board, NCA&T
Artist-In-Residence Award: I-Park, East Haddam Connecticut
Book Publication: Sustainable Site Design, John Wiley & Sons, 2010
Merit Award in Landscape Architectural Research: CT ASLA (w/K. Schwab)
Design Award: Thanatopolis Prize for Landscape Design: I-Park Foundation Inc.
Artist-In-Residence Award: I-Park, East Haddam Connecticut
Lecture: Lake Shoreline Stabilization Management, Woodridge Association, CT
Lecture: Landscape Legacy-Landscape Architecture & Planning Between Art +Science, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, The Netherlands.
Lecture: The Legacy of Charles Fountain, CELA Baltimore MD
Artist-In-Residence Award: Polkovnik Serafimovo, Bulgaria, Griffis & Orpheus Foundations
Exhibition: The National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
Exhibition: Poetic Sculpture, Smolyan Museum of Art, Smolyan, Bulgaria
Lecture: Building Sustainable Communities Thru Developmnt, The Green Valley Institute
Lecture: Sustainable Development Workshop, Green Valley Institute