Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, LTD

Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, Ltd. is a studio-based practice committed to timeless design and masterful execution. Established in the Washington, D.C. area in 1987 and incorporated in 2004, MVLA employs 12 landscape architects and 1 administrative staff. MVLA cultivates a purposefully small corps with a diverse range of backgrounds, including specializations in fine art, architecture, and arboriculture. MVLA is founded on the belief that landscape architecture is a poetic response to the human need for connection to our world. The firm approaches each project with a creative and rigorous study of the site that exercises respect for its history, culture, and ecology. Using this research, the landscape architects identify ways to marry human use and visitation with the lands temporal qualities and systems. This process establishes a powerful vision to forge places that rekindle unity with nature. MVLAs range of project types and scales illustrates that critical thinking an...