Julie Bargmann

Charlottesville

Julie Bargmann is the founder and principal of D.I.R.T. studio in Charlottesville, VA. She is internationally recognized as an innovator in the design and construction of regenerative landscapes. Her distinctive point of view on urban and industrial sites challenges conventional remediation practices, often with groundbreaking results. At the Urban Outfitters Headquarters at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Bargmann’s D.I.R.T. Studio found novel ways to reuse existing site materials in the renewed landscape. The project won a 2014 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, which praised the finished product as “a well-dressed poster child for industrial redevelopment.” Her design of a natural filtration system for acid-mine drainage at the Vintondale Reclamation Park, in Pennsylvania coal country, is a model of bioremediation and earned Bargmann the 2001 National Design Award by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Bargmann holds a fine-arts degree in Sculpture from Carnegie-Mellon University, a master’s in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is the recipient of a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Bargmann is also Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.