Scott Layton is a Project Manager and Designer with Michael Watkins Architect, LLC, an urban design and architecture firm dedicated to designing and implementing a walkable, lasting, and beautiful public realm that fosters community. The firm’s work includes the preparation of master plans for towns, neighborhoods, and hamlets, revitalization and extension plans for existing communities, preparation of design guidelines, various town architect services for new and existing communities, and leading and participating in urban design charrettes. The firm serves as the Town Architect for Norton Commons in Louisville, Ky., and other communities in Louisiana, South Carolina, Ohio, and elsewhere. The firm has collaborated with other New Urbanist firms, among them: Torti Gallas + Partners, Placemakers, Urban Design Associates, and the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community.

As an urban designer, Layton plays an integral role to the firm’s efforts in urban design and master planning, most recently participating in design charrettes for Ford’s Colony in Williamsburg, Va., Provenance in Shreveport, La., and Drake Farms in Fayetteville, Ark. He is routinely involved in the production of project books for master plans as well, and has contributed to the project books for Third Church, Provenance, and Blythe Oldfield. Layton has also completed civic space detail drawings, which specify the character of civic spaces within neighborhoods.

Layton also contributes to the firm’s code-writing and conceptual architecture efforts, and has been heavily involved in the Seaside Code, architectural standards for neighborhoods the firm has designed, and design standards for an existing neighborhood in a local jurisdiction. Layton plays an integral role in language-writing as well as the creation of illustrations for these codes.

In 2016, Layton earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. During his experience at Judson, he developed a passion for traditional architecture and urban design and decided to make a career out of it. Layton is involved outside the office with organizations such as the Congress of the New Urbanism, the National Town Builders’ Association, and the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art.