TEN x TEN

Ross Altheimer and Maura Rockcastle founded TEN x TEN in 2015. According to the firm, their transdisciplinary studio works collaboratively to “co-create immersive, resilient landscapes that adapt to social, economic, and environmental transformation.” Through diverse projects that range from industrial reuse to memorial design and a methodology that centers research and community investment, TEN x TEN’s work demonstrates a deep respect for place and the belief that design can affect positive change in our environments.

Projects include:

• Mill 19, a 5-acre adaptive reuse project using reclaimed materials that features an event plaza, stormwater channel, disturbance-adapted gardens, and public gathering spaces
• Rondo Commemorative Plaza, a public space designed to commemorate Saint Paul’s historic Black neighborhood, acknowledge its destruction, and celebrate the community’s future
• Tri-Faith Commons, a 35-acre faith-based campus that reestablishes a creek, flood plain, and wild native landscape on the site of a former golf course

Exhibitions by TEN x TEN have been shown at Louisiana State University and the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. The practice’s work has received numerous ASLA awards at the national level, and the firm was named a finalist for the 2023 Urban Land Institute Americas Awards for Excellence for Mill 19.

Ross Altheimer is a professor of architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota College of Design. He received a bachelor’s of science in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture + Urban Planning and a master’s of architecture and master’s of landscape architecture from the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

Maura Rockcastle is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota College of Design. She holds a bachelor’s of fine arts degree from Cornell University and a master’s of landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

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