At MVVA, we love the power of landscape architecture and the many roles it can play in improving the quality of people’s daily lives. Our firm’s ethos was established in its earliest years with a series of innovative projects that gave voice to the powerful medium of landscape and pioneered new approaches to materials and technologies. Now, thirty years later, we have emerged as a leader of multidisciplinary design teams of all sizes, still looking for ways to expand the positive influence of landscape.

Our staff members each bring different types of expertise, and we work collaboratively to ensure that every project benefits from our multidisciplinary fluency. We see value and potential in every scale and type of landscape, from the design of entire urban neighborhoods, large public parks, and university campuses, down to intimate gardens and private landscapes. Regardless of project size or location, MVVA’s built landscapes also exemplify outstanding environmental performance, financial resourcefulness, technical innovation, and excellence in the performance of systems, assemblies, and materials.

As a firm and as individuals we prioritize effective management and client satisfaction, and we are proud to have many long-time and repeat clients. We are also deeply interested in landscape as an exercise of both imagination and knowledge. We pursue this interest in multiple ways, including research, teaching, lectures, and publications, often in collaboration with leading professionals from a wide range of fields.

MVVA’s projects, which span North America, have received the highest professional honors. We are exceptionally proud that Brooklyn Bridge Park was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Art Society of New York in 2010, given to a work of art that best captures the energy and spirit of New York City.