Michael Schneider

Biography

Michael Shneider is the founder and principal designer of Orange Street Studio. Intimately involved with each project from the conceptual design to the construction phase, Michael believes in carrying through good ideas on paper into actual physical spaces.

He has 25 years of professional experience in landscape architecture and urban design, bringing a wealth of design, planning and construction experience to the company. As a project manager/designer at Sasaki Associates, Los Angeles, he was responsible for the renovation of Ventura Pier, the master plan for the Santa Monica Beach Prominade improvement and the Sen Golf Course complex in Sendai, Japan. At Carr-Lynch, Cambridge he was project designer for a wide range of projects including parks, housing developments, and large scale urban developments. He has served as visiting critic at Cal Poly Pomona School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, and the University of Southern California Planning Department. He has participated in the American Institute of Architecture Urban Design Committee and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

He received a citation award from the American Institute of Architects Portland Chapter for Park Northwest Project. In 2003, he received the Design Merit Award for the Emerson Residence from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Michael Schneider holds an MLA from Harvard Graduate School of Design and received his BLA with honors from USU. He has been the recipient of Travel Fellowships in Europe and the Middle East, and as a student an ASLA award of honor.