ABOUT WALTER MEYER
Walter Rodriguez Meyer is a landscape architect, policy advisor, professor at Stanford University in NY, and Principal of Local Office Landscape & Urban Design (LOCAL) in Brooklyn. He founded the Minority owned firm LOCAL in 2006 after working as the sustainability director at Cooper, Robertson, and Partners. Walter began his career at Ian McHarg’s firm WRT.
Operating between community, infrastructure, and ecology - the firm has won awards from across the disciplines of architecture, landscape, public policy, science, and art. Walter has been engaged as a lecturer and visiting critic at Harvard University, Yale, Columbia, Penn, MIT, Stanford, UMASS, UFL, UT, Parsons New School, and Pratt.
LOCAL’s built metrics have helped shape national resiliency policy with three federal administrations, resulting in the White House Champions of Change Award bestowed by President Obama.
Currently, Local Office is designing NYC’s first net zero neighborhood as well as three NYCHA campuses for cloudburst rains. The firm is also working on resiliency plans for the states of Mississippi and New Jersey, and adapting Miami to climate change with the EPA.
