Stoss is a cutting-edge design firm that believes in the productive role of landscape in the making and re-making of cities and social spaces.

We specialize in urban and landscape revitalization. We design public spaces, cities, and landscapes to respond and adapt to changes in climate, demographics, and economies. We advise on project strategies for clients thinking about what's next. We research new applications for technologies, infrastructures, and ecologies in ways that transform people's experiences. We imagine new possibilities, creating value and vibrancy in challenging places. 

We work primarily in the public realm, regardless of whether our clients are cities, public agencies, institutions, or private interests. And we're involved in projects of many kinds: urban and campus and ecological spaces; regional and urban strategies; multi-scale landscape infrastructures; development and re-development projects; parks and open spaces; furnishings and exhibitions.

We're landscape architects and urbanists. More than that, we're thinkers, teachers, and entrepreneurs. We ask questions, and we look for non-conventional solutions:

• How do you make nature in the city?
• How do you manufacture ecologies that bring urban spaces back to life?
• How do you design social spaces that take on a life of their own?

We are as interested in how projects work for people and clients as we are in what they look like. We believe it's possible to be both inventive and pragmatic, beautiful and functional. And we're interested in simple technical efficiencies and hybrid solutions that can do many things at the same time—most importantly enriching the lives and experiences of people.