Jim Schuessler

Firm: BNIM, Kansas City, Missouri
Education: BLA, Kansas State; March, University of Kansas
ASLA Chapter: Prairie Gateway
Category: Works

Jim Schuessler is director of the BNIM Landscape Architecture & Planning Studio, which has transformed sites and communities throughout the Midwest and beyond. His work embodies progressive ways of solving design challenges. His three-part approach for creating model communities is sustainable planning, leveraging natural assets and community transformation through engagement. By emulating nature's principles and building upon biology and ecology, his designs are sustainable and self-reliant, creating a symbiotic relationship between the natural context and built environment.

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