Baumer Lecture Series, Maura Rockcastle and Ross Altheimer

Maura Rockcastle
Maura Rockcastle is a landscape architect, co-founder, and principal of TEN x TEN. With a background in printmaking and sculpture, Maura balances a rigorous approach to leadership and design innovation with a conceptual sensibility rooted in process. Maura’s professional experience is focused on cultural, institutional, and complex public realm projects. Her work has received national awards for design excellence, preservation, and innovation. In 2015 she co-founded TEN x TEN to build a practice committed to horizontal co-authorship, radical transparency, and curiosity.

Ross Altheimer
Ross Altheimer is a principal and co-founder of TEN x TEN where he is building and collaborating with a team of the most curious and joyful humans. His process explores the art, temporality, and complexity of place and culture. He works across the nation to build just communities and institutions by leveraging landscape’s dynamic capacity for change. He holds both a Master of Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia and teaches across disciplines at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design. He is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His work has garnered recognition from the AIA, ASLA, GSA Design Awards, and Graham Foundation among others. He believes that transformative design emerges from deep ways of knowing, storytelling, and the authenticity of people and places.