ABLE is a landscape architecture practice of thoughtful and curious designers based in Seattle, Washington
OUR TEAM
Ari Vamos
Landscape Designer
Ashley Ludwig
Landscape Architect
Becky Klein
Landscape Architect, Architect
Jean Ni
Landscape Architect
OUR VALUES
We center environmental justice.
We engage with the complexity of sites, communities, and cultures to imagine better futures.
We advance equity in the built environment through attention to detail, local histories, regional craft, and native ecologies.
We commit to challenging power imbalances in the landscape and promoting the vision and self-determination of marginalized peoples.
We are on Native land. We honor Native history and seek consent and collaboration with Indigenous communities whenever possible.
We build relationships and trust before we build landscapes.
We listen before we design; we learn from the expertise of our partners and communities.
We believe in the power of process to strengthen existing relationships, build new ones, and bring people together around a shared set of priorities.
With respect for the knowledge and responsibility entrusted to us, we hold ourselves accountable and deliver on our promises.
We honor the many forms of labor and craft it takes to make landscapes; we design with maintenance in mind and support fair conditions for landscape workers.
We prioritize joy in the creative process.
Joy is at the heart of all our work: the drawings and daily interactions, the celebration of community, the connection to the Land.
We draw inspiration from the joy, curiosity, and imagination of young people to create a more youth-friendly, fun, and accessible public realm.
We think expansively beyond our role as landscape architects.
We are committed to crafting resilient landscapes for all living beings and humans of all abilities.
We integrate research and exploration into our design process and foster knowledge sharing within the landscape community.
We think beyond the site to consider the ecological, labor, and climate impacts of our material sourcing.
We nurture an equitable practice.
We foster a respectful working environment rooted in a sense of care and mutual support for each other.
We maintain a set of equitable metrics to hold ourselves accountable within our practice as well as with clients, communities, and fellow landscape architects.
We donate our time and money to local organizations and invest back into the communities in which we work. 4% of our annual profits go to social justice causes.
OUR SERVICES
We are a certified women owned landscape architecture practice.
With extensive public realm experience, ABLE offers professional design services from concept through construction for complex and challenging sites.
We believe meaningful design starts with a strong vision co-created with community and is achieved through attention to detail and craft.
We are licensed landscape architects and architects, certified LEED professionals and play safety inspectors, skilled engagement facilitators, and generally quite humorous people.