Ross works to build just communities and institutions by leveraging landscape’s dynamic capacity for change. His work explores the art, complexity, and temporality of place and culture. He facilitates strategy, visioning, planning, and design implementation for cultural, community, and open space projects across the nation.

He credits his love of nature and culture to his mom, an environmental educator, and his love of design and innovation to his dad, who worked in the auto Industry. He takes play seriously and has been known to draw landscapes while running marathons, encourages snorkeling in the Boundary Waters to understand the histories of use, and studies the bees that nap in his native plant garden at home. He holds both a Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he studied subterranean Paris as a Nix Fellow. He was a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome.

The greatest accomplishment of Ross’s leadership at TEN x TEN is building and collaborating with a team of the most curious and joyful humans. His work has garnered awards and recognition from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Graham Foundation– among others.

He believes that transformative design emerges from deep ways of knowing, storytelling, and the authenticity of people and places. He creates space for the dreams of the individual, the community, and the organization to help transform everyday lives.