Mitchell is the landscape architecture design lead at First Forty Feet. His experience designing public parks, urban green spaces and habitat ecologies uniquely intersect environmental design, urbanism, ethology, and landscape architecture. Mitchell’s past work explores the many ways designers use the built environment to respond to and cope with environmental fluctuation over time.

Mitchell has led design efforts on a variety of successful projects and proposals including the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Broadway Malls Restoration and Management Plan in New York, and St. Helens Riverwalk in Oregon. Mitchell’s ability to integrate his background in animal science and ethology into landscape architecture offers valuable insights for urban and environmental design. Mitchell’s interdisciplinary approach for design was recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects by receiving the 2018 Merit & Honor Award for Excellence in the field of landscape architecture.

Mitchell looks to landscape architecture and urban design to reveal the interconnections between story, memory, ground, and time. Drawing from his personal memories in cities, in nature, in gardens, or in the landscapes that turn up in everyday life, Mitchell applies his experience tracking patterns of adaptability to establish a more diverse, dynamic, and vibrant urban ecosystem.