David Jay
About
David Jay leads Weinmayr/Jay Associates, a Watertown landscape architecture firm with more than 50 years of experience designing landscapes that are delightful, maintainable and good value. The firm serves commercial clients who need fast approvals, healthcare and eldercare facilities seeking healing gardens, homeowners, housing developers, and spiritual and historic sites. Specialties include LEED-certified landscape design, native planting, ecological restoration, invasive plant management, and rain gardens and stormwater management.
Michael Weinmayr founded the firm in 1969. One of the last employees of the Olmsted Brothers firm, he tied the practice to the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted, and as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects he focused on site design in public housing renovations and on the healing power of gardens. David Jay joined in 1988, bringing expertise in sustainability and historic work, became a principal in 2004 and took full control after Weinmayr’s death in 2012.
What to Know
- Jay is an ASLA member and a LEED AP for Operations and Maintenance.
- Beach Plum Village earned the firm an Urban Land Institute 2020 award for affordable and workforce housing.
- Work at the Commanding Officer’s Quarters in Watertown won an Architectural Access Board Honor Award.
- The firm belongs to the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and the Ecological Landscaping Alliance.
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