Kimberly Tryba
As managing principal at LILA Studio, Kimberly spearheads the firm鈥檚 global business development efforts and manages the New York City-based firm鈥檚 operations. Prior to founding LILA, Kimberly managed a global landscape architecture practice where she developed strategies for sustainable growth for offices in New York, London and Shanghai.
Kimberly鈥檚 commitment to the industry extends beyond the workplace. An active member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) since 2012, she sits on the board of the New York State Council of Landscape Architects (NYSCLA) and Metro Hort LLC and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ASLA鈥檚 Landscape Architecture Magazine. Previously co-chair of the NJASLA Annual Conference (2020 & 2021), Kimberly currently co-chairs the Advocacy Committee for ASLA-NY and a number of prominent industry events including PlanScapeArch, an annual joint symposium sponsored by the New York Chapters of ASLA, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Planning Association (APA) that engenders cross-disciplinary discourse about critical topics affecting the urban realm of New York City.
Kimberly lectures extensively here and abroad about the importance of landscape within the urban realm, and champions the role of landscape architecture to elected officials via annual Lobby Day (NYSCLA) and Advocacy Day (ASLA) initiatives.
A graduate of the MLA program at Rutgers, she has received multiple recognitions that include the prestigious 2017 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design & Planning Competition, the 2017 Julius Gy. FA虂BOS Research Award in Landscape Architecture, and the prestigious George H. DeBoer Travel Prize for research at the estate garden of Capezzana, near Florence, Italy.
Kimberly enjoys teaching about the practice of landscape design to inspire the next generation of designers through The New York Botanical Garden, where she received a certificate in Landscape Design in 2013 and has been teaching since 2018, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she鈥檚 been an instructor since 2020.