About Us
Established in 2019, Ground Workshop is an award-winning landscape architecture studio based in Portland, Oregon. We are a growing collective of designers with a passion for place-making and the pursuit of mission-driven work. We lend our expertise and collaborative approach across a wide range of scales and project types, including affordable housing, therapeutic environments, parks, civic landscapes, urban developments, and private gardens. We work closely with our clients, stakeholders, and collaborators to establish programmatic needs, reveal insights, and craft a shared vision that elevates a deep sense of place.
Ground Workshop is a COBID-certified Emerging Small Business (ESB #12049) in the State of Oregon. We currently hold professional licenses in the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and are able to be registered in any state or jurisdiction to best support our clients and collaborators.
Our Ethos
Ground Workshop seeks to create landscapes that foster meaningful connection to land, community, and place. With a love of craft, innovation, and regional identity, we draw on order and materiality to create spaces of balance. We believe in the strength of wonder. Ground Workshop strives for a sense of discovery within sequences not immediately revealed, but when experienced unfold with clarity, creating moments of pause and reflection in which one realizes their place in the landscape.
Our Team
TOMMY SOLOMON PRINCIPAL, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP
Tommy, the firm’s founder and Design Principal, is a licensed Landscape Architect with over 15 years of professional experience in the master planning and site design of diverse project types including park, civic, institutional, healthcare, affordable housing and private gardens. Prior to establishing Ground Workshop, Tommy led a wide range of projects with 2.ink Studio (Associate Principal) and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (Associate). Architecturally trained, Tommy received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia and Bachelors of Fine Arts in Architecture from the University of Memphis. Tommy’s unique interdisciplinary experience in architecture and landscape architecture allows him to study projects from multiple perspectives.
ANDREW SCHNEIDER ASSOCIATE, PLA
As a licensed Landscape Architect with over 7 years of experience, Andrew brings an artful, concept-driven approach to design. He has worked on a wide range of project typologies, from parks and mixed-use developments to private gardens. Andrew holds a Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture from Ball State University and is the Vice President of Chapter Services for ASLA Oregon.
RYAN NICHOLSON ASSOCIATE
Ryan brings a passion for design and sustainability initiatives to every project, with emphasis on creating meaningfully crafted spaces focused on the recognition of place, story, and environment. A native of Portland, Ryan earned his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon. He joins Ground Workshop from TBG Partners in Texas where he worked on a broad spectrum of project types, from temporary art installations to large-scale masterplans.
ALDEN CARR LANDSCAPE DESIGNER, PLA
Alden is a licensed Landscape Architect who brings a background that combines environmental science, biology and landscape. He earned his BS Environmental Science from Northern Arizona University and MLA from the University of Oregon. A Pacific Northwest native and plant enthusiast, Alden has worked on a wide variety of project types from large-scale urban development to private residential gardens. In his free time he enjoys curating his home garden and developing his metalworking skills.
TARYN WIENS LANDSCAPE DESIGNEr
Taryn looks to bring forward the historical, cultural, and ecological aspects unique to each site as a way of designing landscapes deeply rooted in place. Taryn holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Art from Colorado College. Her 3 years of professional experience includes tenures at Walker Macy and Nelson Byrd Woltz, as well as teaching a design studio in the University of Virgina graduate landscape architecture program. In her free time, you can find Taryn experimenting in her garden or reflecting on the role of landscape design in the world: her writing and research has been published in the Site Magazine, the Journal of Architectural Education, and Landscape Research Journal. She is also very dedicated to her two children Hazel and Merle, who happen to be dogs.
With gratitude to our previous Ground Workshop team members: Tom Wortman, Hayley Chung, Kelli Barker