Campus Studio

Philosophy

MESA’s Campus Studio believes that landscape architecture is an art form that can resensitize our consciousness to the physical world. Whether practiced in an urban or rural environment, each project is carefully vetted, emphasizing and using tensions between architecture and nature rather than disguising them. We wish to contribute to the history of landscape architecture by synthesizing design, technology, and art. Our clients demand the finest quality design work and an intellectual partnership, a continual give and take. We work creatively at the periphery of our practice and understand and appreciate the value of our allied professions: architecture, engineering, interior design, science, and art.

Approach

The Campus Studio approach complements and enhances surrounding architecture and nature, rather than enforcing a particular “MESA” style. Working with sound, light, water, building materials, and plants, our design intends to evoke emotion and create a memory of the site in the project user. We study the context of our project sites and are influenced by natural systems, urban patterns, current and projected cultural events, and economics. In service of sparking creativity and open-mindedness, our Campus Studio charettes draw inspiration from literature, philosophy, photography, music, and a host of personal experiences.

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