Principal

Michael Schneider 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 detailed physical spaces.

He has twenty five years of professional experience in landscape architecture and urban design, bringing a wealth of design, planning and construction experience to the company. As project manager/designer at Sasaki Associates, Los Angeles, he was responsible for the renovation of the Ventura Pier, the master plan for the Santa Monica Beach Promenade improvement, the Sen Golf Course complex in Sendai, Japan; at Carr-Lynch, Cambridge he was project designer for the Hartford Business district and at THK Associates in Denver 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 the Park Northwest Project. In 2003 he received the Design Merit Award for the Emerson Residence from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Michael Schneider is a registered licensed landscape architect and holds a Master Degree of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning degree with honors from Utah State University. He has been the recipient of Travel Fellowships in Europe and the Middle East. While a student he received an ASLA Award of Honor.