Landscape Architecture
Landscapes provide empowering experiences. Teammates come together to work hard and be their best. Children discover their connection to nature. Through our stewardship, the landscape becomes essential. Parkhill’s commitment is to protect and restore our natural resources while providing a sustainable environment. Our holistic approach engages community growth, intrigues the intellect, builds the body, and enriches our lives.
Meet the Landscape Architecture Team
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Clint Wofford
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Chad Dietz
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Brent Clifford
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Chad Davis
RLA, LI
Frequently Asked Questions About Landscape Architecture
Landscape architects design outdoor spaces around buildings and sites, parks, plazas, trails, athletic complexes, stormwater-integrated green spaces, and streetscapes, balancing usability, sustainability, and long-term maintenance needs. Their role extends beyond planting and landscape improvements. Landscape architects help plan how sites are organized, how people move through them, and how buildings and outdoor spaces relate to one another. They can also play an important role in site selection and determining where buildings and other improvements should be located.
By understanding a site’s natural characteristics and intended use, they help shape overall development and integrate buildings with their surroundings. At Parkhill, our landscape architects work alongside architects, engineers, and planners, coordinating with community stakeholders on public projects from concept through construction administration.
Ideally, landscape architects should be involved at the start of planning, before decisions are made about building locations and the overall site layout. Bringing landscape architects in early allows site grading, drainage, and outdoor programs to inform the plan rather than being fit around a finished building design. Understanding a site’s topography, existing vegetation, access, and other physical characteristics helps identify opportunities and constraints that can influence project development and prevent costly changes later in design. This early involvement helps ensure the site and building are designed together, rather than treating the landscape as something to address at the end.
Both. Parkhill’s landscape architects work on a wide range of projects, including parks, sports and recreation complexes, trails, civic and workplace campuses, transportation corridors, higher-education sites, and other public and private developments. Our work extends beyond planting design. As an integral part of the design process, we contribute to master planning, site layout, grading, pedestrian circulation, hardscape design, and the overall organization of outdoor spaces. Whether we’re developing a parks master plan for an entire community or designing the site surrounding a new building, our focus is on creating spaces that function well, fit their surroundings, and meet the needs of the people who use them.
Landscape architecture and civil engineering have different areas of emphasis, but there is considerable overlap. Landscape architects focus on how a site is planned, organized, and experienced, including pedestrian circulation, planting, paving materials, landforms, drainage considerations, and the relationship between buildings and outdoor spaces. Civil engineers focus more heavily on the infrastructure supporting development, including grading, utilities, storm drainage systems, and roadways. At Parkhill, these disciplines work closely together throughout the design process, integrating technical requirements with design objectives rather than approaching site design and engineering independently.
For us, sustainability starts with understanding the site and making thoughtful decisions about its development. That includes working with existing topography, preserving valuable vegetation where practical, selecting plants and materials suited to the regional climate, and managing stormwater. Long-term maintenance is equally important. A landscape needs to do more than look good when construction is complete. It should function properly, be manageable for the owner, and continue to serve its intended purpose for years to come. We see sustainability as responsible stewardship of both the land and our clients’ resources.