OLIN’s work is predicated on developing innovative and tailored approaches to social engagement, environmental and social responsibility and justice, and financial and operational sustainability in the context of awe-inspiring and beautiful designs built with finesse and craft. Their award-winning projects cross boundaries of scale, typology, and site condition, yet are all driven by their central mission: to create places that enhance life.

Beautiful and conscientiously crafted landscapes have a potential to be catalysts for human interaction, recreation, and community. While beauty and craft are integral to our practice, OLIN doesn’t stop there.  They approach each project individually, basing design decisions on the underlying expressive power of a particular site in conjunction with specific programmatic possibilities. They synthesize and integrate their findings and aspirations in new site elements and systems that are amplified and layered to create resilient designs that have the power to positively influence communities.

OLIN’s appreciation for the need to constantly deepen their understanding of the unique complexities of urbanity is paramount. They do this by committing to research, education, and technological advancement under the umbrella of OLIN LABS, articulated through five labs: eco, people, tech, design, and build.  OLIN engages clients in the beginning by identifying their ambitions and direction for innovation.  This approach stimulates deep reflection on the design process, drives passion for exploration, encourages discourse, and provokes them to question assumptions, which in turn, directly informs the project.

By blending values and inquiry, craft, and creativity, OLIN has built a renowned landscape architecture practice over more than forty years, and we thrive in our continued evolution.