demetrios staurinos, rLA, ASLA
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Demetrios Staurinos has over 20 years of professional experience in urban design and landscape architecture, designing projects from intricately executed gems like parks and playgrounds, to large-scale district plans—each focused on human experience within the urban environment. Demetrios is fascinated by the intersecting phenomena of people and natural systems and how they guide narratives of place. He is particularly interested in transformations that reveal new ways of moving, playing, and coming together. He draws inspiration from investigating cultural affectations that make a place unique and from the ecology that defines the geography where we live.
His recent work along waterfronts have been at the forefront of resilient design and environmental justice, combining infrastructural improvements with community needs for the enhancement of the public realm. He has recently completed the master plan for Dorchester Bay City in Boston Massachusetts, the extension of Mill River Park in Stamford, Connecticut, the vision plan for the Landscape of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, Lock 3 Park and the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden in Akron, OH, the signature Sturgeon playground addition to the design of Pier 26 in New York City, and several school playgrounds including the Mary McLeod Bethune School, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Demetrios teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been a guest critic and lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Penn State University, and the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He encourages his students to understand the context of each design problem, to make earnest assessments about the natural, economic, and cultural realities influencing their solutions and how those realities have meaning for us.