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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 […]

When the owner of this private oasis left the high gloss beaches of Los Angeles to re-ground in Northern California, she found a natural small-town embrace in Sonoma. We were tasked with turning a lifeless rear space blocks from vibrant Sonoma Plaza into a seamless extension of living space – an expression of the sophisticated, […]

The owners of this unique property are collectors of artifacts from all over the world, and returned from a trip to China having fallen in love with the massive bronze bells they discovered there in rural temples and hidden tea houses – so much so that they commissioned one from a local craftsman to bring […]

This project is a consideration of two acres perched on a slope overlooking the idyllic hamlet of Mill Valley, California. The assignment was to create a series of garden rooms that could be for small family gatherings or large celebrations and keep the landscape open and connected to the architecture while providing small intimate moments […]