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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.
His recent work along waterfronts have been at the forefront of resilient design, environmental justice, and 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, and Pier 26 in New York City.
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.
Josh is a key member of OLIN’s Leadership Team, responsible for maintaining and enhancing the firm’s professional standards. This includes providing leadership in project execution, overseeing OLIN’s quality assurance and quality control protocols, monitoring project financial performance, and leading staffing and professional development initiatives. He is a founding member of OLIN Labs and leads Build Lab with a focus on improving OLIN’s practice and approach to construction documentation as well as educating design staff on sustainable construction solutions. He is currently working with an OLIN Labs team on grant funded efforts around research and testing of an innovative recycled glass-based soil mix.
He has worked on award-winning projects such as Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio; the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City; and Yale University’s Franklin and Murray Colleges in New Haven, Connecticut. More recently Josh served as an on-site project manager during the construction of Apple Park, the company’s iconic new campus in Cupertino, California.
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Pat Playdon is an Associate at OLIN who focuses on the design and creation of dynamic and engaging public spaces. His work integrates natural systems with the urban environment in a thoughtful, site specific manner. At OLIN, Pat has engaged with a spectrum of project scales and typologies. His work ranges from small community gardens to large-scale built work and planning efforts set within a campus fabric. His approach to enhancing social and ecological function in innovative ways is showcased in Pat’s engagement with university campuses, corporate campuses, nature preserves, and urban public spaces. Throughout his projects, Pat brings a nuanced understanding of site-specific conditions and a dedication to crafting landscapes that are both aesthetically compelling and environmentally responsive, with the purpose of enriching the lives of those who inhabit and interact with them.
Takashi is a seasoned Associate with nearly two decades of experience spearheading the delivery of complex, high-stakes projects. He excels across diverse typologies and scales. He believes that great design is rooted in rigorous process and deep client partnership. A dedicated advocate of integrated project delivery, he champions seamless, multi-disciplinary collaboration to ensure exceptional design performance and project stewardship from strategy through close-out. His recent experience includes the development and invigoration of two premier botanical institutions, mixed-use and corporate campus developments in Silicon Valley, and a new US Embassy in Brussels designed to strengthen bilateral relations with the EU and Belgium.
Senior Landscape Architect + Living Systems Specialist | RLA
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