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Ben Barsotti Scott, PLA

I’m a landscape architect licensed in the state of New York. I also curate exhibitions, primarily through a collaborative project called Bad Little Brother. And I’m a student of historical geography, currently researching a series of civilian-led blockades of US Navy terminals in the final years of the Vietnam War.

Occasionally, I’m  also a teacher and critic at schools of art and architecture: see the syllabus for my 2022 undergraduate course on contemporary architectural theory here. Even more occasionally, I write for architecture and urban geography titles like the the New York Review of Architecture, Critical Planning Journal, and the Journal of Landscape Architecture. You can see my full CV here.


I live and work in New York City and commute every once in a while to New Jersey. I post some of my recent and ongoing work on this site. If you’re interested in working together, you can contact me here.
Ben Barsotti Scott, PLA

I’m a landscape architect licensed in the state of New York. I also curate exhibitions, primarily through a collaborative project called Bad Little Brother. And I’m a student of historical geography, currently researching a series of civilian-led blockades of US Navy terminals in the final years of the Vietnam War.

Occasionally, I’m  also a teacher and critic at schools of art and architecture: see the syllabus for my course on contemporary architectural theory here. Even more occasionally, my writing appears in architecture and urban geography outlets like the the New York Review of Architecture, Critical Planning Journal, and the Journal of Landscape Architecture. You can see my full CV here.


I live and work in New York City and commute every once in a while to New Jersey. I post some of my recent and ongoing work on this site. If you’re interested in working together, you can contact me here.

Pneu Order
 2017


How can we have fun in a crisis? An inflatable ground for protest and pleasure on the US National Mall.
Experience Pneu Order, an inflatable ground for protest and pleasure on the US National Mall! Rock steady in the Rockery, where super bouncy inflatables rub up against rock-hard monuments! Get your freak on in the intoxicating jasmine heat of the Tunnel of Love! Devote yourself to the Reliquary: you’ll never forget the present with these shapely greenhouses for a wetter, hotter, warming world! And explore new worlds in the bulging exhibition rooms that occupy the fat, Mylar walls of Hot Tropic!

Trump and Bannon are counting on our “resistance fatigue.” How many more protests can my body take? They’ve never felt the miraculous rush of energy that comes at 3AM when the DJ plays your favorite song: I Feel Love, I Will Survive, I’m So Excited, We Are Family, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real). This is our secret weapon (and the secret is out, honey!)

Pneu Order was a proposal in response to the arrest of anarchist anti-fascist protesters in Washington, DC, on the occasion of the inauguration of US President Donald J. Trump. It was the origin of the guiding question, “how can we have fun in a crisis?”