Firms and Projects of the Western Range

Each year, LASN highlights the local landscape architectural firms located in the region that hosts that year?EUR??,,????'???s annual ASLA convention.

The 2004 ASLA convention is in Salt Lake City, Utah, so we invited firms from Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to report their project expertise in their own words.

To prepare for this year?EUR??,,????'???s special feature on the firms of the Western Region, we interviewed quite a few landscape architects. Many of the firms in and around Salt Lake City reported their confidence in SLC?EUR??,,????'???s growth and the growth of the Western Range as a region.

We found stats that back that optimism up. For example, in 2004, the Salt Lake City-Ogden metro area again topped the list of U.S. cities where women-owned businesses were growing and thriving.

We?EUR??,,????'???re proud to boast that you?EUR??,,????'???ll find at least two women-owned firms (Landmark Design Inc. and Peaks to Plains Design) in our Western Range profile. You?EUR??,,????'???ll also find two native-American owned firms (David Garce Associates and Kent Watson & Associates).

This year?EUR??,,????'???s profile includes firms with less than three employees (CARL THUESEN and Edwards Landscape Architecture & Garden Design) to a global environmental engineering and construction services (MWH). You?EUR??,,????'???ll also get a good look at quite a few award-winning landscape architecture firms with particular expertise in water conservation and the preservation and enhancement of the land that represents the American West.

Links to the Articles:

• Landmark Design Inc.
• Carl Thuesen, ASLA
• Abbotswood Design Group
• David Garce Associates
• MHTN Architects, Inc.
• Hatchmueller P.C.
• Hough Beck and Baird Inc.
• Edwards Landscape architecture & Garden Design
• CLC Associates
• MWH
• Peaks to Plains Design
• Utah State Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
• MGB+A
• Aspen Resource Consultants
• Kent Watson & Associates