Marta Lewin

I am from Poland, graduating from The University of Life Sciences and have since become a lecturer and a freelance landscape architect. I work across hugely different scales of project from patios and rooftop gardens to landscape assessment and landscape management plans. In 2009 I was awarded a PhD specialising in landscape architecture, with a dissertation focused on assessment of visual values of the landscape. I moved to Devon in 2014 and my first role in the UK was a landscape architect was with Arup. In 2020 I joined Tyler Grange as a landscape consultant but my career there was impacted by the pandemic and ended within months when I resorted back to a freelance landscape architect where I built my confidence with LVIA`s.

I was looking for an opportunity to join a multidisciplinary company working on a broad selection of projects to widen my expertise. My area of interest is in designing and building resilient landscapes and knowing Atkins portfolio I saw an opportunity to utilise my skills and experience but also to learn and become involved in many other aspects of landscape architecture.

I am currently involved with infrastructure projects Highway and Environment Agency projects such as Holbeam Dam and Gooseum Reservoir.

Designing is not only about creating something that is aesthetically pleasing. Good design must recognise and respond to landscape values, to the needs of the users and to increase landscape resilience, responding to the huge challenges around climate change. Good design creates places that are not only functional, but also personalised and focussed on positive placemaking.