Bruce is Director and Practice Lead with Tlalli Collaborative. Bruce has a uniquely visionary and systemic approach to design practice that considers the multiple layers of possibility with each decision. He loves collaboration. He puts himself and his many life passions into his work. He has deep experience shepherding complex initiatives from vision to implementation across multiple scales spanning expansive regional ecologies to small urban spaces.

Bruce leverages his over three decades of private, public and non-profit experience to conduct transformational work that portrays a sustained trajectory of design innovation, visionary leadership, community trust, and passion. It is common for Bruce to work closely with client communities for years and even decades to envision, design, and curate landscape transformation. He is at home in settings ranging from wild habitats to town centers to parks to river corridors to farmland to construction sites.

Bruce is a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2019 recipient of the ASLA-MN Lob Pine Award for distinguished career, and 2020 recipient of the University of MN Alumni Service Award. He is a mentor, a passionate Nordic skier, and restorer of historic structures.