who I am

My name is David Wollney. I am a landscape architect by title, but it may be more descriptive to say that I am a space maker.  I use both design and engineering skill in the age-old quest to form a collaboration between art and nature.  

The design process is akin to a painter capturing a scene through the eyes, brain and heart, emerging from the brush in hand to the paint on the canvas. My medium is environmental: scale, volume and mass inform placement of landforms, foliage, hardscape, structures, lighting, and water features.

The ‘painting’ requires translation into a built environment. In order to maintain the design integrity, I am an artist-in-the-field, present for aesthetic and engineering decisions, rolling up my sleeves to place, to plant, to construct.

The collaboration extends beyond design and construction, to cultural needs such as environmental stewardship. The modern landscape architect is responsible for life and ecology.

Finally, a most valued part of this process is the collaboration with patrons. The relationships I have formed over years of enacting visions on behalf of clients has enriched both my work and personal life in ways I never could have imagined.