Deborah Nagan

Deborah is director of Deb Nagan Studio, a multidisciplinary consultancy focussing on the  interwoven themes of making sustainable environments:  nature & landscape, social cohesion, better development and a commitment future generations.  She is a landscape architect with over 30 years of experience and was Head of Sustainability for a global architecture practice, founder of Nagan Johnson Architects and Uncommon Land.

Deborah has designed installations and small-scale works for garden festivals as well as private and public residential schemes. Experience working on Crossrail and the London Olympic site has given her the awareness of the operation of complex teams. Her projects are international and UK-based with specialisms in large scale schemes, complex urban sites, environmentally sustainable landscape and planting design. Recent work includes retrofit architecture projects in Soho, where she has a studio and at Kew Gardens on the Kew Palm House and Brentford Gate historic landscapes. In 2023, her public realm and landscape for the Faculty of Arts at Warwick university was Stirling-prize nominated.

She is active in the stewardship and design of projects close to her home in Waterloo SE1 as both a Trustee of BOST and Emma Cons Gardens.