Profile
Maggie Tsang is a landscape architect, architect, and urbanist whose research focuses on the intersection between landscape, ecology, urbanism, and infrastructure. She is cofounder and managing principal of Dept., a landscape architecture and urban design studio based in Houston. Dept.’s current work spans various scales, from an experimental garden and constructed prairie at Rice University to a two-acre public park with Buffalo Bayou Partnership in Houston’s East End. Dept.’s recent Good Neighbor Stormwater Park, a community retention basin in North Miami, won Fast Company’s Best of Urban Design Award in 2020 and the Florida Gold APA Award for Innovative Design. Dept. was awarded the 2022 League Prize from the Architectural League of New York and named 2024 “Editor’s Pick” for Best in Landscape Architecture, Southwest Region from Architect’s Newspaper.
Tsang was the principal investigator for an interdisciplinary research initiative, “Community Oriented Stormwater Infrastructure,” with the Departments of Civil Engineering and Sociology, as well as co-curator with Dalia Munenzon of the exhibition Big, Hot, and Sticky at the Architecture Center Houston.