In every project, Lauren focuses on strengthening the connection between people and place to develop the groundwork for long-lasting, exceptional spaces. Her passion lies in the collaboration + relationships with clients and the communities they serve.

LAUREN FASIC CANTRELL, PLA, ASLA

PRINCIPAL, FOUNDER

Lauren Cantrell, PLA, ASLA, is a Landscape Architect and the co-founder and owner of DELINEATOR. Her experience spans the globe on a broad range of award-winning landscape architecture, urban design, and planning projects that focus on environmental sustainability and material craft. She credits the strength of her most successful work to her ability to curate strong collaborations with clients, architects, artists, stakeholders, engineers, and communities. In every project, Cantrell focuses on strengthening the connection between people and place to develop the groundwork for long-lasting, exceptional spaces that express harmony between communities and natural systems. She is a registered Landscape Architect in Texas, Virginia, and Maryland and has extensive knowledge in constructing work in North Texas.

Cantrell believes that great design begins with analytical forensics to gain an understanding of a site’s intricacies and relationship to context as a way to tell the story of ‘place’ from the site’s cultural, social, economic, and environmental needs.

Since co-founding of DELINEATOR, in 2017, her approach and projects have garnered eight Texas ASLA Awards including The Plaza at Solana in the Town of Westlake, Texas, a renovation of an original design for IBM’s North Texas Campus by Peter Walker Partners and Ricardo Legorreta. In 2023, The Virginia Chapter of ASLA recognized Cottonwood Creeks: A Sustainable Vision Plan with an Award of Merit in the Analysis and Planning Category. She led this 300-acre urban design project with her team to center sustainable and local development around a productive landscape and restored floodplain to create an open space that cleansed, captured and re-used stormwater and graywater.

Lauren leads the design and operations of DELINEATOR. She is responsible for the execution and delivery of design services, client relations and business operations including leading the design studio in Dallas and Charlottesville.

In parallel to her professional practice she is also involved in a broad range of activities including participation on roundtables, advisory boards, and committees with a focus on equitable, environmental, and innovative urban design collaboration. She joined the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Practice in 2024.

Lauren dedicates her time to teaching and practice between Texas and Virginia and enjoys visiting the Shenandoah National Park and The Trinity River Forest.