About the Business
- OEHME, VAN SWEDEN | OvS is a diverse group of landscape architects, horticulturalists, designers, creative thinkers, and collaborators.
- We explore the ecology, culture, and history of each landscape and fuse art, science, and humanity to distill its form and amplify its function. The result is a contextually-appropriate, high-performance composition that connects people to the land.
- Our firm transformed the field of landscape architecture with the New American Garden style of design, distinguished by a balance of horticultural complexity and architectural craftsmanship. Thoughtfully-constructed paths, terraces, walls, fences, and arbors organize the land and provide elegance to everyday function. Within this framework, we infuse botanical expression in the form of color, texture, movement, and fragrance.
- Our designs embrace the seasonality of the American meadow and magnify its ecological systems, sustainable processes, and aesthetic values. The New American Garden boldly reveals the ephemeral through mystery, intrigue, and discovery.
- This approach can be applied at any scale - whether it's a ten-foot-square city garden or a ten thousand-acre expanse. Our body of work ranges from urban redevelopments, monumental civic spaces, and institutions to arboreta, botanic gardens, and sculpture parks to estates and urban residences.
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- OvS was founded by landscape architectural pioneers Wolfgang Oehme (1930-2011) and James van Sweden (1935-2013), OvS is led today by Eric D. Groft, FASLA, CEO and Director, along a Third Generation of leadership. Principals Sara Downing, ASLA; Stacilyn Feldman; ASLA; Lili Herrera, Robert Johnson; Eva Lin, CFO; and Justin Maglione will help guide OvS further into the 21st Century. OvS’ history is chronicled in a series of books. The latest in the series, Beyond Bold: Inspiration|Collaboration|Evolution is a unique record of the Second Generation’s tenure with the firm, exploring the work that inspired them to join OvS, the designs on which they collaborated with the founding partners, and how they cultivated an individual style that is as legacy-driven as it is exploratory. Previous titles include The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design, Architecture in the Garden, Gardening with Nature, and Gardening with Water and Bold Romantic Gardens.
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