OLIN is a design studio with a mission. We are a team of enthusiastic landscape architects, planners, urban designers, and support staff. From our two locations in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, we are dedicated to creating distinguished landscapes and urban designs worldwide.
Our 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. Our award-winning projects cross boundaries of scale, typology, and site condition, yet are all driven by our 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, we don’t stop there. We approach each project individually, basing design decisions on the underlying expressive power of a particular site in conjunction with specific programmatic possibilities. We synthesize and integrate our 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.
Our appreciation for the need to constantly deepen our understanding of the unique complexities of urbanity is paramount. We 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. We engage 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 us to question assumptions, which in turn, directly informs the project.
By blending values and inquiry, craft and creativity, we have built a renowned landscape architecture practice over more than forty years, and we thrive in our continued evolution. Together, we are OLIN.