Our logo includes the words: “Culture, Nature, Place” – ever wondered why? Today, we’re introducing (or re-introducing) you to our practice and why we do what we do.
Adaptive reuse at Ogden Business Exchange Commons
Team
Io LandArch is a woman-owned interdisciplinary design firm specializing in landscape architecture, historic preservation, urban design, and planning, based in Ogden, Utah. With a 15+ year track record, our nimble team of designers brings diverse expertise in landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation, communications, horticulture, and more.
Services
Our services range from community-focused placemaking and historic preservation to personalized residential design. Our firm has two primary practices: Community Design and Home & Garden. This means that we work with communities (cities, institutions, non-profits, etc.) as well as with individual homeowners, empowering all our clients to transform spaces into vibrant environments.
With a 15+ year track record, our nimble team of designers brings diverse expertise in landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation, communications, horticulture, and more.
Why We Do What We Do
Our work is focused on the continuation of the regional narrative, weaving history, ecology, and culture together for projects that evolve from and advance the spirit of the Intermountain West.
We work with individuals and communities on projects which weave history, culture, and ecology together to create super-natural places–places that are imbued with a sense of connection, context, and meaning.
Together with our clients, we craft places that speak to our souls, places that feel like home, places that are engaging, inclusive, and vibrant, places that are each unique and special.
Culture
This current moment presents unique difficulties for growing and maintaining sustainable, meaningful, and vibrant places. At their root, many of these challenges—including gentrification, urban sprawl, generification, lack of engagement and poor physical and mental health—stem from a lack of meaning and a loss of connection to culture, nature, and place.
Our Creative Placemaking practice focuses on connecting communities to culture, through projects including:
- Arts District Planning
- Tactical Urbanism
- Creative Public Space
- Live-work Environments
Engagement for the Nine Rails Arts District; Ogden, Utah
Nature
We believe that creating vibrant, walkable, urban communities helps to preserve prime agricultural farmland and wild places. But that doesn’t mean that urban communities need to live in concrete jungles.
We work to preserve green-fields and to restore ecology and ecological function through urban forests, green infrastructure, bioswales, green roofs, parks, and trail systems. Emphasizing ecological function on landscape projects offers benefits including:
- Reduced urban heat island effect
- Improved air quality
- Reduced runoff
- Expanded wildlife habitats
- Opportunities for human connection to nature
Corner Plaza; Ogden, Utah
Place
Io LandArch is the only Utah-based landscape architecture studio with an active historic landscapes practice, and we have worked on historic landscapes across the state.
Our aim is to connect communities to the history which grounds their distinct sense of place. We provide historic landscape services including:
- Cultural Landscape Reports
- Historic American Landscape Surveys
- Design Guidelines
- Historically Sensitive Design
- Reconnaissance Level Surveys
25th Streetscapes; Ogden, Utah
We Would Love to Connect
We look forward to working with you to bring culture, nature, and a sense of place (back) into your community or home. Feel free to connect with us via our contact us form, or on social media, linked below!
