Claire Agre is a Partner and Cofounder of Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, a Baltimore-based practice grounded in the power of the designed landscape as a force for joy, beauty, and quality of life. Designing at all scales and sites, Unknown Studio creates thriving ecosystems and coherent, experientially powerful places that are inclusive of all people. Claire considers stewardship of place to be a moral imperative; her work links beauty, care, and collective action, leaving our world better than we found it.
Agre has led design and implementation for a diverse portfolio of projects, including Governors Island, Druid Lake, North Meadow on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Baltimore's Harborplace, Portland Museum of Art, Miami Beach Soundscape Park, multiple Plans for Longwood Gardens and its award-winning Main Fountain Garden Revitalization, The Nasher HaemiseggerFamily Sculpture Garden at Duke University, planning at The Land and Garden Preserve on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and at the largest scale, the winning entry for Changing Course—an interdisciplinary, international design competition seeking solutions for the disappearing Lower Mississippi Delta.
Agre turned to landscape architecture after studying tropical ecology at the Wilson Botanical Garden and Las Cruces Research Station, and has since led multidisciplinary design teams at The Houston Botanic Garden, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, and Naples Botanical Garden. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University. She has lectured and taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, University of Texas, University of Oregon, University of British Columbia, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
