Key Personnel

KEITH E. SIMPSON, FASLA

Principal

Keith E. Simpson, FASLA, is a landscape architect, registered in the State of Connecticut and New York. He is the president of Keith E. Simpson Associates, Inc., located in New Canaan, Connecticut. Since founding the firm in 1982, Mr. Simpson and his staff have provided landscape architectural and environmental site planning services on properties located predominantly in Connecticut and New York.

The firm has been responsible for the site planning and design related to an extremely wide range of projects, including corporate facilities, office buildings, industrial, municipal, multi-family and coastal facilities, parks, school campuses, golf courses, subdivisions, and private residences. Major projects include Neuroscience Center and Grace Auditorium at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on Long Island, NY, and the Arts and Science Centers at Choate Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford, Connecticut, which were designed in collaboration with I.M Pei.

In 2007 Mr. Simpson was elected to be a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in Washington D.C. Mr. Simpson is a past President of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and was formerly the Trustee representing the Connecticut Chapter of the national organization in Washington, D.C. Prior to his term as president, he served as the organization's Treasurer. In 1998, the Connecticut Chapter of the ASLA presented Mr. Simpson with the George A. Yarwood Award, in recognition of outstanding service.

Mr. Simpson has testified before numerous local boards and commissions in New York and Connecticut.

Keith E. Simpson Associates has received design awards from the Connecticut Society of Architects/American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architects/Long Island Chapter. Mr. Simpson has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Cornell University, and Connecticut College.

Mr. Simpson received a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, in 1976.