yrrell Studio has emerged as a visionary practice over the relatively short period of ten years. The office occupies a much-needed space in current landscape architecture practice with a body of work ranging from catalytic built public works to extended, open urban visions. Italian architect Carlo Ratti has said that increasingly, the modus operandi for architects and designers is to create projects “with as much visibility and cultural importance as possible, rather than to address the questions at the root of human habitation”. Tyrrell Studio’s work eschews this trend and seeks to get at the big urban challenges of our time – biodiversity loss, human health, and collaboration across disciplines. Despite these lofty goals, a lightness of touch in the practice’s work tempers false notions such as control and definition. Rather, Tyrrell’s oeuvre offers smaller, more open-ended ways to influence systems and spaces amid messy realities. In doing so, the studio aspires to set in
