Alexandra Mei

Alexandra Mei, PLA, ASLA is a landscape architect, educator, and researcher. She is the founding principal of Ground Collaborative, a landscape architecture practice that partners with communities to envision, realize, and steward their public spaces. Her work spans the Midwest, with projects in St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Cleveland, and centers on creating accessible, engaging, and thoughtfully designed places that can be sustained for years to come. Previously, Alexandra has designed and managed projects including the Hirsch Center at WashU with Christner Architects and the 16 Tech District Plan in Indianapolis with Merritt Chase.

Mei graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master in Landscape Architecture and earned a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the WashU Sam Fox School. She has received multiple honors including the WxLA 2020 Scholar Nomination, the Harvard GSD Thesis Award, the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Olmsted Scholar Nomination, and the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship from the GSD. Mei has also published and exhibited her work at Harvard University, in UC Berkeley’s Ground Up journal, and in Peking University’s LAF magazine.

Since moving back to St. Louis in 2019, Mei has been committed to strengthening the local design community, as president of the ASLA St. Louis Chapter and co-chair of the upcoming ASLA Central States regional conference. She is a lecturer in WashU’s landscape architecture graduate program, where she is currently teaching a studio focused on the public realm along the MLK Cultural Boulevard in The Ville neighborhood in St. Louis.