Dale Schafer

Biography

Dale Schafer is a Senior Associate and Senior Designer with Thomas Balsley Associates in New York City. Mr. Schafer offers over 20 years of design and project management experience working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure that the landscape planning component is successfully realized. His experience with landscape planning on diverse project types such as urban open space revitalization, mixed-use developments, and medical and academic campuses is indicative of how he can successfully create exterior spaces that balance aesthetics, architectural relationships, programmatic issues and environmental concerns.

After graduating with his BLA from Utah State in 1987, Dale went on to obtain his MLA from the University of California at Berkeley, where he received the Barlow Award for Design Excellence. He is a registered Landscape Architect in New York and Massachusetts and has received first place in the Thomas Church Design Competition.

A small sampling of projects with which Dale has been involved includes the Magok Waterfront Master Plan in Seoul, Korea, Hunters Point Shipyard & Candlestick Point in San Francisco, Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, and Battery Park City Cinema Plaza in New York.