lew oliver, inc

Trilith Town Urbanist And Planner

Lew Oliver is an Atlanta based, urbanist, master planner, and designer, whose work has won numerous national and international awards. As a preferred design consultant to the international Town Planning firm, Duany Plater Zyberk, Oliver has advanced New Urbanism for a decade. Oliver was a key consultant on Southlands, British Columbia (agri-urbanism) and the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Lifelong Communities (age in place) charettes, both Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award winners for 2010. His design and implementation of the DPZ Master Plan of Vickery was instrumental in the project winning the 2006 ULI Development of Excellence Award, the 2006 Greater Atlanta Homebuilders Association Development of the Year Award, and a 2008 CNU Charter Award.

Oliver’s residential design emerged in the early 2000’s with work in noted New Urbanist projects as Celebration FL, I’on SC, Clarke’s Grove GA, Lost Rabbit MS, Rosemary Beach FL, and led to the design for the 2001 New American Home in Atlanta, the National Association of Homebuilder’s 1st Earthcraft show house. The same year, Oliver’s Southern Accents Show house at Rosemary Beach opened to a record number of visitors. Oliver’s “Nest” cottage, collaboration with Serenbe, Southface, and the US Department of Energy opened in the summer of 2010. Oliver’s design for as the Coastal Living Ultimate Beach House in Seabrook WA won the Award of Merit for the Pacific NW in the Gold Nugget Awards. In 2012 Lew Oliver revisited Rosemary Beach to create the 2012 Southern Living Show house.

In 2001, Oliver was named “Town Urbanist” of Clarke’s Grove, a historic infill project master planned by DPZ. By the late 2000s, the DPZ master planned towns of Vickery, and the Village at Hendrix, as well as the new town of Serenbe (nation’s largest ecocommunity), Woodstock Downtown, Seven Norcross, Manget, and Patrick Square (Torti Gallas master plan) were added as projects under Oliver’s design direction. Oliver’s design hand has lead to his involvement and leadership on numerous charettes including DPZ’s Isla Jose Gonzalez, Panama; Arcos de la Frontera, Spain; the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Lifelong Communities Charette, Seabrook, WA, Big Canoe Village, GA; Crabapple Village; Tornagrain, Ladyfield, Grandview, Lochgelly, for the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative, Scotland; Schooner Bay, Bahamas; Cloudrock, UT; amongst many others in Central and South America, the Middle East, and the Philippines.

The new prerogative for the company will be in designing whole communities – selfsustaining in power and food production, responding to the local vernacular and climate.

Oliver lives and works in Midtown Atlanta.

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