Camuti, Liz

Liz Camuti, RLA, is a landscape architect and Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Architecture. Her work focuses on resilience planning and design for climate adaptation, particularly in cities along the Gulf Coast.   She previously worked at SCAPE Landscape Architecture in New Orleans where she both led and contributed to inter-disciplinary teams developing landscape strategies and innovative infrastructure for public projects at multiple scales.    Liz’s expertise is in visual storytelling, with a focus on communicating complex ecological, economic, and social systems to public audiences as part of an engaged design process.     Liz earned her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia where she received the ASLA Certificate of Honor and was named the 2018 National Graduate Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF). After graduating, she continued her research through the LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership, investigating how practitioners might break historical cycles of erasure and control that have shaped community design in coastal Louisiana.    Liz also holds a Bachelor of Science in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University where she was an Editor for the Cornell Daily Sun and a manager of Cornell’s Student-Run Organic Farm.