TSW, a full-service planning, architecture and landscape architecture firm headquartered in Midtown, has promoted Lionel Johnson, AIA, AICP, RA, LEED BD+C to Senior Associate and Kristin L’Esperance, PLA, ASLA, to Associate. 

Johnson, who joined the firm in 2009, has worked on architecture and planning projects in North America, Central and South America, the Caribbean and China.  He earned both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Architecture from Andrews University in Michigan and specializes in green building design and New Urbanism design principles.  He is a certified by the American Institute of Architects, American Planning Association, LEED Building Construction and Design and the U.S. Green Building Council.  He lives in East Atlanta with his wife and two children.

L’Esperance joined TSW in 2014 and works primarily in the firm’s landscape architecture and planning studios as a project manager on a wide range of projects from hotels, mixed use, main streets, campuses, parks and recreation facilities, coastal resorts, multifamily projects and more.  She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Florida in 2011, is a registered Professional Landscape Architect in Florida and is a USGBC SITES Accredited Professional (U.S. Green Building Council).  Currently, she is serving on the Executive Committee for the Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects as Advocacy and Licensure Chair.  L’Esperance lives in Atlanta’s Lake Claire neighborhood.