Ruth Penberthy is a designer at PORT, where she supports the office’s landscape architecture, urban design, and planning efforts. With a focus in climate science and urban resiliency, her work revolves around an iterative design approach, combining technical, figurative, imaginative, and abstract techniques to produce a novel concept. Ruth enjoys thinking in three dimensions and considering varying timescales.

With a background in civil and environmental engineering, Ruth balances her systems-thinking design approach with a strong aesthetic lens. Prior to joining PORT, Ruth worked at Langan Engineering where she worked directly with numerous engineering disciplines on the permitting, design, and construction of a variety of project types and scales. These included parks and greenways, streetscapes, mixed-use developments, and public facing institutional work within education and healthcare.

Ruth holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where she earned the Faculty Medal in Landscape Architecture. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Smith College, where she received the Prize in Landscape Studies as well as the Ford Motor Company Prize for Sustainability. Her work has been featured in publications such as "Landscapes in Process" and "Building Post Carbon Futures.” In addition to her professional work, Ruth is a lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design. She teaches summer preparatory classes for incoming graduate students as well as a core curriculum class on the fundamentals of analogue and digital drawing techniques used in landscape architecture.

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• Jordan River Regional Park Plan, Salt Lake County, UT
• Arkansas River Master Plan, Cañon City, CO