Commissioners & Staff

Signe Nielsen


Signe Nielsen

Signe Nielsen is the Landscape Architect member of the Public Design Commission. As principal of her firm for 25 years, she has designed and supervised the construction of more than $240 million worth of projects, including waterfront parks, large campuses, urban design and transportation improvements, and corporate facilities in the United States and abroad. Her design work has received more than two dozen national design awards, has been published extensively in professional journals and books on landscape architecture and has been exhibited in New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Signe holds degrees in Urban Planning from Smith College, in Landscape Architecture from City College of New York, and in Construction Management from Pratt Institute.