Thomas Woltz, FASLA, Board Co-Chair
Thomas Woltz, FASLA, holds M.Arch. and M.L.A. degrees from the University of Virginia. Prior to graduate studies, he worked for five years in Venice, Italy, where he developed an intense interest in architectural craft that continues to influence his design work. He began working with Warren Byrd in 1997 and became a partner of Nelson Byrd Woltz in 2004. During his time with the firm, Mr. Woltz has led designs of a broad range of institutional and corporate projects in the U.S. and abroad including The Peggy Guggenheim Sculpture Garden in Venice, Italy; Luckstone Corporation, Richmond, Virginia; Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, Round Hill; and The National Arboretum of New Zealand, Eastwoodhill Arboretum. He has led design work on private gardens and farmland in a dozen states and New Zealand over 15 years of practice. Currently the studio is dealing with more than 10,000 acres of cultivated land in the U.S. and New Zealand. Mr. Woltz has held a part-time faculty position in the University of Virginia School of Architecture for 14 years teaching site planning and land analysis. More recently, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Conservation Agriculture Studio within Nelson Byrd Woltz. This is a family of projects that share information and seek to interweave sustainable agriculture with best management practices for conservation of wildlife, indigenous plants, soil, and water.