Counts Studio is a landscape architecture and planning practice originally founded in New York City in 2009 and now based in Miami.
The studio approaches landscape architecture with the creative ambition and artistic sensibility of a fine arts practice, combining bold conceptual thinking with the technical expertise required to realize projects successfully. Founder Christopher Counts brings more than two decades of internationally recognized experience across a diverse range of public, cultural, institutional, hospitality, and private residential landscapes, as well as large-scale planning and urban design. Central to the studio's design approach is an emphasis on spatial experience, thoughtful composition, and the relationship between people, architecture, and landscape. Each commission begins with a careful understanding of its context, client, and the particular opportunities and character of the place. Every project is personally led and designed by Counts, ensuring continuity of design vision from initial concept through implementation. Through a highly collaborative process, the studio works closely with clients and project teams to transform their goals and aspirations into distinctive and enduring landscapes.
Christopher Counts
Christopher Counts is an internationally recognized landscape architect whose work explores the relationship between landscape, movement, material, ecology, and human experience. His work spans public parks and plazas, private residential gardens, university campuses, memorials, cultural landscapes, and large-scale master plans in the United States and internationally.
Counts began his career with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in New York City, contributing to projects including Brooklyn Bridge Park, the ASLA Green Roof in Washington, DC, Bailey Plaza at Cornell University, and Corktown Common in Toronto. In 2008, he was awarded the Rome Prize and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome. He has also been a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award nominee.
In 2009, Counts founded Counts Studio in Brooklyn, New York. The studio's work received numerous design awards and recognition in international design competitions, including the Moore Square Master Plan, Beijing International Garden Expo, and a finalist proposal for the World War I National Memorial in Washington, DC.
Counts subsequently served as Design Principal at Perkins&Will and Lead Design Principal at Raymond Jungles Inc., leading significant public, institutional, and private commissions. Recent projects include Jacksonville Riverfront Plaza, Huizenga Park in Fort Lauderdale, Parkview Promenade at Florida International University, and the Memorial Garden for Brice Marden in Athens, New York. He has since returned to his own practice, reestablishing Counts Studio in Miami.
A strong believer in the intersection of teaching and practice, Counts has maintained an active relationship with academia throughout his career, serving as the Stuckeman Career Development Professor of Design at Pennsylvania State University and as a visiting professor, invited critic, and lecturer at universities including Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, Clemson, and the University of Georgia.
Counts earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. He is a licensed landscape architect in Florida (#LA6667504), New York (#002957), and South Carolina (#1481).