Between Land Architects

between land architects is a san francisco bay area landscape architecture studio established by principal douglas m. rooney. our design philosophy begins with the proposition that the site has all of the answers and the creation process is simply "mining" for those solutions and allowing the site to become the place it was destined to be. we are driven by the idea that landscape architecture occupies a unique position in the built environment as a complex distillation of art, architecture, botany, ecology, civil engineering, urban planning, traffic engineering, environmental mediation and climate manipulation...all with a healthy dose of public policy and a dash of sheer diplomacy. our goal is to define the exterior spaces of the built environment in a manner that creates a "sense of place" and fills the interstices of cities with a "mortar" of landscapes informed by cultural needs and imbued with soul nurturing beauty.