Brian Davis

Brian Davis is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he is co-director of the Natural Infrastructure Lab.

His work focuses on coastlands as cultural and infrastructural landscapes, with particular interest in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. He is a member of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a licensed landscape architect. Together with Erin Putalik and Sean Burkholder, Brian is co-founder of Proof Projects, and co-directs Healthy Port Futures with Sean. He is a researcher for the U.S. Army Corps Engineering with Nature + Landscape Architecture program, and has an abiding love for muddy places and writing about landscapes.