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At its best, landscape architecture reshapes how we experience and inhabit place. Perched above Sonoma Valley, this project transforms a confused arrival and underutilized edge into a unified architectural–landscape composition. Through strategic simplification and intensification, mature olives structure circulation, gardens extend to amplify views, and native plantings blur foreground and horizon. In collaboration with architect […]

Set within a woodland valley overlooking Mount Tamalpais, this garden is conceived as a living nautilus—an inhabitable expression of the Fibonacci sequence unfolding across the landscape. More than inspiration, the nautilus shell serves as the project’s generative framework: a geometry of growth, proportion, and expansion that organizes space, movement, and experience. Translating that geometry into […]

Some properties carry their greatness quietly—foundational architecture and an extraordinary site doing much of the work. Others, over time, fall out of step with their potential. By honoring principles of modernism, constraint is transformed into character. Organic geometries answer rigid architecture. Mediterranean plantings respond to microclimate. A suspended deck turns an inaccessible slope into the […]