Cilva Chen

Landscape Designer

Boston, MA, USA

Cilva is a landscape designer motivated by developing interdisciplinary solutions that integrate human experience and socio-environmental resiliency across disciplines and geographic boundaries.

Cilva joined MASS’s Boston office as a Landscape Designer in 2023. She contributes to design, research lab, and land.MASS resources in the Landscape Studio. Her passion and past participation in in-field research and design projects across America, Africa, Europe, and Asia drew her to MASS. 

Cilva received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Penn State, where she was granted the 2020 ASLA Student Honor Award and 2020 College Creative Achievement Award. She graduated in 2022 with a Master of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, where she practiced teaching and researching in Climate-adaptive Design (CaD) Studio as teaching assistant and continued Erie Canal Project and Sound of Silence Project as Research Assistant.

Prior to MASS, Cilva worked as a Teaching and Researching Assistant in a series of studios, labs, and research projects across climate-adaptive design, urban ecology, and participatory design.