DLANDstudio

Our Story

Born of a city known for its clear logical organization, our practice comes from personal observation of urban landscapes. Cities are made up of compelling attractions, but also an underbelly of interstitial, often overlooked infrastructure; the forgotten spaces adjacent to canals, train lines, and highways. From these settings, we mine opportunity for recreation, gathering, fabrication, resilience, and habitat. We confront the challenges of global climate change and obsolescent infrastructure with a methodology rooted in research, synthesis, and invention. Our designs are grounded by the intimacy of space, the scale of the everyday, the tactility of materials, and the subtlety of craft.

Finding symbiosis between natural ecologies and constructed systems requires stretching disciplinary boundaries. We affect urban policy and inspire action with beautiful images supported by visualization of quantifiable information and experts who inform our understanding of the dynamic qualities of the landscape.

We define success through evolving global conversations, changing urban policy, and inspiring action.

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