Valerie Aymer

Valerie Aymer is a licensed landscape architect and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.  She received her Master’s in landscape architecture from Cornell University and practiced professionally for over 15 years in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia working with the notable, international design firms, EDAW, EDSA, and AECOM.  Prior to joining Cornell, she was the AECOM Design Lead for Construction Administration on the World Trade Center projects in lower Manhattan, most notably the Liberty Park project.  In 2015, she joined the faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University where she teaches several technical courses including site engineering. In May 2020, the second edition of her site grading book Landscape Grading - A Study Guide for the LARE was published by Routledge Press, part of the Taylor and Francis Group.  She is also a member of the NYS Board for Landscape Architecture, a Cornell Botanic Gardens Faculty Fellow, a member of the Black Landscape Architects Network, and a participant in ASLA’s Diversity Summit program.

Selected Publications

Aymer, Valerie. 2020. Landscape Grading: A Study Guide for the LARE (2nd Edition). Routledge Press, Inc.