Founded in 1983, Mahan Rykiel Associates is a 35 person landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm with an office in Baltimore Maryland. The firm works across scales to imagine and realize projects that enrich the human condition and support vibrant natural systems.
Research and discovery guide project development that range from public parks, civic plazas, state infrastructure, downtown and neighborhood plans, academic institutions, corporate campuses, mixeduse housing, private residences, healthcare facilities, hotels, and commercial centers.The firm cultivates this diversity to deepen and broaden its creative capacity to shape the built environment.
Research and discovery guide project development that range from public parks, civic plazas, state infrastructure, downtown and neighborhood plans, academic institutions, corporate campuses, mixeduse housing, private residences, healthcare facilities, hotels, and commercial centers.The firm cultivates this diversity to deepen and broaden its creative capacity to shape the built environment.
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The firm utilizes a collaborative approach to structure its design process; drawing on the diversity and talent of its staff, as well as those of its clients and partners to understand and resolve complex project challenges.
Our integrated design solutions focus on economic development, environmental stewardship, and community identity in projects that range in scale from vacant lots to megablocks and from individual sites to infrastructural systems.Mahan Rykiel has been recognized by the National and Maryland American Societies of Landscape Architecture for a body of work spanning across 30 countries and 35 years with over 100 awards.
Our integrated design solutions focus on economic development, environmental stewardship, and community identity in projects that range in scale from vacant lots to megablocks and from individual sites to infrastructural systems.Mahan Rykiel has been recognized by the National and Maryland American Societies of Landscape Architecture for a body of work spanning across 30 countries and 35 years with over 100 awards.
35 years designing highly successful places has taught us that good design stems from an acute ability to listen to stakeholders. That communication is the pathway to understand whats needed. We explore, so that we can illustrate a vision; and we confirm, to assure that our solutions align with attainable goals.
Mahan Rykiel deploys a rigorous and collaborative approach to design and planning to draw out and maximize the unique potential of each project. This approach is grounded in the firm's stakeholder engagement efforts which begin in the early phases of project development and continue throughout each subsequent phase of the project.
Successful parks and cultural landscapes are gathering spaces where people, nature and communities can thrive. Underlying all of our projects is a profound commitment to preserving and protecting natural resources through engaging ecological design strategies that connect and reinforce personal relationships with the environment.
Our streets, highways and transit ways are the backbones and links to our communities. The miles that they stretch comprise many facets of Landscape Architecture, from planting design, to managing stormwater runoff, and from environmental compliance to hardscape design features. Each project is different, with a defined set of values important to its own.
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