Ann P. Stokes, Principal, opened her firm in November 1998 with the goal of providing a full service design office offering campus and master planning, urban design and garden design services.
Prior to establishing her practice, Ann Stokes, CLA, ASLA, spent five years with Robert A. M. Stern Architects in New York where she became the associate in charge of the landscape department.
At Stern's office, Stokes' projects included Aspen Highlands Village, a $230 million ski area development in Aspen, Colorado; the Disney Ambassador Hotel near Tokyo, Japan; the Justice Department's National Advocacy Center and a new residence hall, both on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia; the Spangler Campus Center at Harvard Business School; a campus master plan for the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore; master planning for a new resort town in Heiligendamm, Germany; an estate in Montecito, California; and residences in Beverly Hills and Napa County, California; Dallas, Texas; Seoul, South Korea and on Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
Campus design has been a particular focus for Ms. Stokes following her years working at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. In particular, Stokes' projects include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the Knott Science Center at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the Taft School in Watertown, CT (winner of Traditional Building Magazine's 2004 Palladio Award) and most recently, the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
Ms. Stokes, a Norfolk native, is a 1993 graduate of the University of Virginia Graduate School of Architecture and a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Planning Association. In addition, Ms. Stokes serves on the Board of the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, the Development Committee for the Hermitage Foundation Museum and is a member of the newly formed Norfolk Public Arts Commission. She also serves on the Advisory Council of the Child Development Center at Old Dominion University. Ms. Stokes is licensed to practice landscape architecture in New York, Virginia and North Carolina.