Since its inception in 1992, HM White was founded on the principle that the designed landscape is among the most powerful forms of cultural expression. The firm prides itself on creating high performance and multi-functioning landscapes that are routed into the dynamic needs of the site and its users. Our projects range in scale, program and global location and encompass a variety of services that include environmental analysis, master planning, and landscape design for public parks and civic spaces, educational and cultural campuses, mixed-use urban developments and districts, corporate facilities, as well as intimate garden spaces and residences. Through our collaborations with clients, architects, ecologists and allied design professionals, we provide creative problem solving to reach synergistic designs that are responsive to the site’s ecology, history, vernacular influences, program, schedule and project economics. Our design approach is to build ecological holistic systems that establish a web of healthy inter-relationships. Our work is unified by its clarity in fusing these dynamic elements of nature and the social and political forces of our culture that ultimately promote social interaction. Each landscape design integrates the site’s ecological structure with the needs of human settlements and establishes an authority of harmonious longevity and vitality.
Our conviction is that our rigorous process of systematic analysis and research will reveal the inherent order and uniqueness of each setting. The firm’s diverse talents and resources of landscape architects, architects, urban designers and planners undertake each project on an individual basis to find opportunity for a dynamic and relevant future in the fundamentals of the place and the aspirations of the community. Our completed works have an unique visual identity, spatial richness and legibility through simplicity well suited to its purposes, contexts and budget.  Through its award-winning and celebrated work, clients and communities have come to expect landscapes with consistent clarity of vision that are site-specific, artful, compassionate, timeless and which ultimately enhance life.