Benjamin Monette

Ben is the founder of Mud and his career has focused primarily on high profile public projects of various scales where he has had the opportunity to work with many world-renowned planners, architects, and designers. He has led intense site scale urban design efforts as well as city-scale green infrastructure planning. He has had the good fortune to participate in many artist collaborations, the most meaningful of which have generated a unique and invigorating design perspective that informs his work.

In addition to his award-winning professional practice, Ben is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture at NC State and has lectured at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia University.  He has been inspired by the community outreach and extension while attending graduate school at NC State and he continues to seek opportunities to teach and volunteer.

Ben believes that beyond the trappings of handsomely appointed furnishings, well amended soil, and nursery grade plant stock, what makes a place special is the wonder to be found in a poetic landscape. Such a landscape discourse can at once tell a story while permitting yours to be lived.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with a talented and amazing muse he gets to call his wife, and their dog who would invariably rather be napping.