Landworks Studio, Inc. is a design-driven landscape architecture collaborative known for creating transformative and regenerative spaces through the close investigation of natural process and change over time. Our work prioritizes ecological restoration, sustainability, civic engagement, and creative placemaking.
“We use conventional tools, along with the latest technology to find the best solutions to advance our designs. Our multidisciplinary team of designers push the boundaries of innovation to produce highly integrated and sustainable landscape solutions.”
- Michael Blier
Local Work
the Laurent
Cambridge, MA
The goal of this new housing community at 55 Wheeler Street is to provide enhanced street plantings that not only provide a pleasant pedestrian experience but also reduce the carbon footprint, cool the urban heat island effect, as well as increase floodwater resiliency through the use of species that draw up and transpire significant amounts of water.
Under Construction
KAFD Parks
The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in Riyadh has unveiled its newest urban and community park, a vibrant public space between Parcels 1.13 and 3.03 designed to foster wellness and active living. As executive landscape architects for this project, Landworks Studio integrated diverse amenities and innovative detailing while pursuing SITES Gold Certification for sustainable development.
Our Philosophy
Vibrant Placemaking
We are engaged in design research that uses atypical and emergent materials and fabrication techniques to viscerally expand landscape experiences. Accordingly, many of our projects emerge from a dialogue between various materials and calibrated ordering systems such as modularity, seriality and repetition.
Change and Time as Protagonists
We are interested in the artful registration of environmental ephemera and calibrating between fixity and mutability according to predictable and less predictable factors and those things against which change is registered and experienced.
High Performance Urbanism
We are interested in the relationship between ecological performativity and human performance as a mechanism for resilient urbanisms. We believe that careful scrutiny at a human scale of potential interrelationships of these conditions leads to innovative and site-specific design responses.
“Sketching has always been central to our philosophy. Ideas often take shape when pencil meets paper and evolves through many iterations during the collaborative process.”
- Michael blier
Project Categories
We offer extensive design, planning, and build Landscape Architecture services in the following areas:
The Design Quad
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