Mary Pat McGuire is a registered landscape architect, principal designer at The Water Lab, and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research and teaching are focused on water-based landscape urbanism and urban surface infrastructure. She is co-editor of Fresh Water: Design Research for Inland Water Territories (AR+D, 2019), and currently writing Surface Design in Landscape Architecture (Routledge). Previously, McGuire taught at IIT in Chicago and practiced with Peter Walker & Partners in Berkeley, California.