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About AECOM

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Our technical experts and visionaries harness the power of technology to deliver transformative outcomes.

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About AECOM

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

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Innovation & Digital

Our technical experts and visionaries harness the power of technology to deliver transformative outcomes.

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Gonzalo Cruz

I focus on public realm at the intersection of infrastructure and placemaking, which is really all about people. We always put their experiences first. For design professionals and landscape architects, this encompasses our ability to responsibly negotiate, from the get-go, how the infrastructure we imagine fits into the future of the cities we live and breathe.

Gonzalo is the Design Principal for the New York Metro area and leader of our Urbanism + Planning Practice across the Americas and abroad.

His award-winning studio portfolio incorporates traditional forms of practice as well as large-scale infrastructure as it is driven by public realm design. Gonzalo’s diverse professional accomplishments are rooted in his interdisciplinary background. In recent years, he has been creating innovative work at the intersection of large-scale infrastructure and placemaking, including South Battery Park City Resilience Wagner Park and Pier A Plaza, Brooklyn Montgomery Coastal Resilience Open Space and Hoboken Cove Waterfront Park.

His practice has received awards from ASLA, AIA, NYC by Design and the Chicago Atheneum Design Excellence Award in Open Space design for World Trade Center’s Liberty Park. Gonzalo holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the City College of New York and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.