We design thoughtful, site-responsive landscapes that connect people to place.
Through a tailored design process, we create spaces that inspire, ground, and evolve - rooted in curiosity, stewardship, and a deep respect for living systems.
Our landscape architecture studio is licensed in the state of Oregon and is a certified women owned business (WBE).
Alana MacWhorter
PLA, ASLA, or license # la1111
Farmer’s daughter raised between two islands (Bainbridge Island and the Big Island of Hawaii) who loves lava rock as much as a cushy northwest forest floor, heads south to Nayarit, Mexico whenever she gets a break to work on her family’s property in the jungle, once drove a sports car full to the brim of flowers through Tuscany to adorn a wedding, will always encourage the group to take the happy hour sunset sip through the garden.
Alana has been practicing landscape architecture for over a decade in the Pacific Northwest with projects spanning from university campuses, public parks, wineries and farms, ‘woonerf’ streetscapes, skyrise terraces and cultural landmarks. Her training is a dynamic blend of her formal education at Scripps College and UC Berkeley with a dual Masters in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and ‘boots on the ground’ at her family’s biodynamic farm, the Yestermorrow Design/Build school in the Green Mountains of Vermont, and leading the design and construction of her off-the-grid home on the Mexican Pacific Coast.
Melanie Bowerman
PLA, OR license #la1138
Native Angeleno, loves color and reflective objects just as much as any raccoon, has her bare toes in the mud as much as possible, loves the smell of guavas and crushes wine grapes with her feet every fall at her parents tiny hobby vineyard. Truly believes that getting to know our neighbors is necessary for our future survival and well-being, not to mention fun.
With a Masters in Landscape Architecture from UGA and a Bachelors in Studio Art from UCLA, Melanie’s professional work has always blended art, design and the landscape. Over the past fifteen years she has learned the ins and outs of stormwater management and plumbing as a greywater systems installer, managed neighborhood revitalization programs for counties in rural Georgia and has designed landscapes for public parks, transitional housing communities, multi-family developments, public schools and private residences and estates in the Pacific Northwest.
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