Some places to look for inspiration
Some Examples to See
Here are some example gardens, designers, and places to look for inspiration:
Useful Places to Look for Designs and Designers
The American Society of Landscape Architects Awards Page
The Society of Garden Designers
The Digital Library of Landscape History - Amazing walk-throughs of historic gardens
Planting Projects and Designer by Influences
Influenced by native landscapes
Ten Eyck - Contemporary plantings w/native plantings, Austin Texas
Bernard Trainor and Associates/ Ground Studio - Palo Alto, largely residential, contemporary, plant oriented
Turenscape - Chinese firm, large public projects, lots of infrastructure and stormwater work
Raymond Jungles – Miami firm – lush jungle like plantings
Sarah Price – British Designer, ecological planting designs, native like
Phyto Studio – Claudia West – Ecological planting design
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates- Wide range of projects, very plant oriented
Ground Studio - Mixture of native plantings in modern/minimal arrangements
European Garden Tradition, Focus on Plants, Flowers and Texture
Gertrude Jekyll - Extremely important planting designer of the arts and crafts era
Matthew Cunnigham Landscape Design - Massachusetts, residential, plant/garden oriented
Acres Wild (Debbie Roberts and Ian Smith) - UK, plant/garden oriented
Dan Pearson- English garden design. Excellent residential work. Plant heavy.
Thomas Hoblyn – Excellent gardens and hand drawn renderings. English estates. Smart approach to plants
Arabella Lennox Boyd, Excellent planting design combining looser and formal styles, British
Tom Stuart Smith, UK estate gardens, excellent planting work, and good space design, good combination of plant heavy and formal design styles.
Andy Sturgeon, British, garden oriented, interesting use of plants
Charlotte Rowe – Garden in Barnes – beautiful garden oriented work.
Planting and Working in Post Industrial Sites
D.I.R.T Studio - Focus of sustainability, re-use, lots of post industrial work. Urban Outfitters Headquarters
Minimal and Space Oriented Plantings
Perry Guillot Inc. - Minimalist modern, picturesque residential
Peter Fudge - Modern, residential, clean, Australian
Jacques Wirtz – Interesting Topiary, lively with restraint, no longer alive, but firm continues to create work
Dan Kiley - Important modernist designer, very space oriented.
Andre LeNotre - 17th century French garden designer, rectilinear, space oriented designs, including Vaux-Le-Vicomte, Palais des Tuileries
Villa Lante - 16th century Italian garden
Parc Andre Citroen
Castle Ruscili
Bold Approaches to Planting through texture and Color
Surface Design- Wide range of projects from small to large scale. Good planting design
Roberto Burle Marx - Brazilian landscape architect with bold use of plants, materials and color.
T.C.L – Australian firm, wide range of projects from residential to large botanic gardens and civic spaces. Lush plantings contrasted with artfully designed hard materials. Largely influenced by art. Very bold work.
Office of James Burnett - Nice public and garden oriented work. Good use of tropical palette.
Ula Maria Great textural gardens, intimate spaces
Adolfo Harrison-Great plant and material textures
Le Jardin Majorelle - Great use of tile and tropical plants
Historic and Contemporary Designers Coming from the Japanese Tradition
Mitani Landscape Studio - Japanese, contemporary but connected to Japanese tradition
Mirei Shigemori (1896-1975) Japanese modernist landscape architect. Historian and landscape designer, reinterpreter of Japanese tradition.
Junya Ishigami, Japanese architect, interesting projects and representation
Kyoto Prefectural Hall
Katsura imperial palace
Kobori Enshu (Designer)
Firms with Mixed Approaches to Planting
Nelson, Byrd, Woltz - Virginia, New York,Wide Range
Gustafson, Guthrie, Nichol - Large Scale, Public, Gates Foundation
Michael Singer Studio - Alterra institute for environmental research
Carbo Landscape Architecture - Louisiana residential and small public, Good, but subtle planting design
Luciano Giubbilei - From very minimal to very textural plantings