Emily is a passionate professional with a background in design, business, and strategy. Her approach combines nature, technology, and the built environment, benefiting diverse clients including Fortune 500 companies, governments, and organizations.
Notable achievements include leading a masterplan for Google, steering a NYC strategy awarded $10B, building a retail brand that attracted top partners, having her work in the Venice Biennale, and being featured in Vogue. She shares her expertise through lectures and as a professor at Columbia University. Her work is featured in exhibitions and publications and she’s been a juror for design awards.
Emily Bauer
Designer / Founder / Strategist
Experience
Bau Land
Founder & Principal
2019-present
Leads a built environment design studio creating nature-inspired solutions across scales, from products and buildings to parks and urban designs. Work has been published by key organizations & top design magazines.
Design and economic strategy for a diverse roster of clients, including boutique hospitality ventures, developers, and nonprofit orgs
Rockefeller Foundation Award Finalist - Food Vision Prize for Lebanon Center
Award-winning landscape design for Wythe Residence
Columbia University
Adjunct Professor
2018-present
Teaches a course for graduate architecture, planning, urban, and computational design students at Columbia University GSAPP.
Seed Bombs: Urban Ecologies & Landscape Technologies - Explore & fabricate nature-tech solutions to challenges in the built environment
Jungle NYC
Founder & CEO
2020-2023
Founded a lifestyle company connecting people and nature through digital and physical plant stores and complete design & care services.
Developed four multi-million dollar revenue streams: retail, e-commerce, design, and subscription services
Differentiated the brand in an indistinct market, attracting CEOs, celebrities, and top companies
Clients include Adidas, Mandarin Oriental, WSJ, Lamborghini & Tiffany’s
Bjarke Ingels Group
BIG
Project Manager & Design Lead
2016-2019
As a design and management lead for clients like Google, Disney, WeWork, and the NYC’s Mayor’s Office, Emily guided projects from bid to completion.
Key driver and contributor for the Mayor’s $10B Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project, part of the BIG U
Led 1,700 acre district masterplan for Google in South Bay
Managed and led design for high-end Disney World Resorts hotel
Award-winning Gople Light design & concept with Artemide
WeWork NYC Headquarters and Emirates Towers 2071 Center landscape design lead
!melk Design
Business Development & Associate Design Lead
2013-2016
Led business development and key projects for a growing landscape architecture and urban design company, with a solid pipeline of projects - Expanded into Asian markets
Key contributor from ideation to construction of the first park on the Las Vegas Strip for MGM Resorts International
Led public and stakeholder community engagement for three public realm projects
Features & Awards
International Festival of City Making
Guest Speaker
2019 Turin Italy
PRESS
Rockefeller Foundation | 2050 Food System Award
Semi-Finalist | Farms Not Arms Lebanon
2019
Arcadia Earth & Oceanic Global | ‘Adapting to Uncertainty’
Keynote Lecturer | 2019
PRESS
NYC Center for Architecture | ‘The Quantified City’
Lecture | 2019
Venice Biennale
Main Pavilion | Exhibition ‘Humanhattan 2050’
Venice Italy | 2018
PRESS
Gople Lamp | 2018-’19
Wallpaper* Design Award ‘Life Enhancer of the Year’
Interior Design Best of the Year Award
Architect’s Newspaper Design Awards
Juror | 2017
Wythe Corner Townhouse
Landscape Designer | 2016-’17
Dezeen
AN Best of Design Award Honorable Mention
Metropolis Magazine
Wallpaper* Magazine
ASLA AZ Award | Hance Park Masterplan
International Horticultural Expo | Exhibitor
Xi’An China | 2011
Versailles Garden Grant | French Heritage Society
Versailles France | 2012
Carbon Neutrality Plan for the University at Buffalo Executive Committee
Buffalo NY | 2008-’10
U.S. E.P.A. | National Env. Management Studies Climate Research Fellow
Mid-Atlantic Region | 2009
Guest Studio Critic at Columbia University, Pratt University, Cornell University
Education
Cornell University
Master’s of Landscape Architecture
2013
University at Buffalo
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology B.S.
2010
Events & Partnerships
Brand & Marketing
Strategy & Development
Interiors & Products
Architecture & Landscape