TERRIGENOUS owner representing Vermont on national stage

By Domenic Poli

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Scott Wunderle

SAXTONS RIVER >> The owner of the landscape architecture firm tasked with designing the park slated for the center of Saxtons River now represents Vermont on the national stage.

Scott Wunderle, who owns TERRIGENOUS in Chester, began his term as president of the Vermont chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He recently attended the Chapter Presidents Council biannual meeting in Denver, Colo., and will do so again this spring in Washington, D.C., and next fall in Chicago.

Wunderle, who earned two bachelor's degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and sports a background in fine art and construction, said he advocates for the profession of landscape architecture and for the design process in general.

"The most successful projects I've worked on combine design, construction management, and hand craft," he said. "I control the macro and the micro throughout the process, and rely on others to do everything in between."

Wunderle told the Reformer the membership of the Vermont chapter which boasts about 60 people voted in the fall to make him president. He said he has since helped organize a holiday party and the 2014 Doug Crowell Lecture Series that featured Seattle-based architect James Cutler who designed the house of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as part of Burlington City Arts. Wunderle also organizes monthly meetings of the Vermont chapter of the ASLA.

He said he also is in the middle of organizing the 2014-15 Public Places Awards, which will be held at the Vermont Statehouse. Wunderle told the Reformer the awards are a biannual event to honor landscape architects and members of allied professions who have worked on any outdoor space project.

Wunderle said his tenure has been a great experience so far and he appreciates who he gets to work with.

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TERRIGENOUS owner representing Vermont on national stage