Signe Nielsen

Signe is a Founding Principal of MNLA and has been practicing as
a landscape architect and urban designer in New York since 1978.
Her body of work has renewed the environmental integrity and
transformed the quality of spaces for those who live, work, and
play in the urban realm. A Fellow of the ASLA, she is the
recipient of more than 100 national and local design awards for
public open space projects and is published extensively
nationally and internationally. Signe is a professor of urban
design and landscape architecture at Pratt Institute in both the
graduate and undergraduate Schools of Architecture and is the
former President of the Public Design Commission of the City of
New York. Born in Paris, Signe received a Bachelor of Arts, cum
laude, in Urban Planning from Smith College; a Bachelor of Arts
in Landscape Architecture from City College of New York; and a
Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Pratt
Institute.