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Wagner Architects Landscape Architects Environmental Planners is a professional planning and design firm founded in 1999. We offer consulting and full services for educational, municipal, and fine residential architecture, site planning, and garden design projects.
As our name implies, our view is multidisciplinary. Officially, we are architects and landscape architects, but our backgrounds extend deep into the related fields of environmental planning, urban design and fine art. Not surprisingly, our resume of projects spans several disciplines, a wide range of scales, and an unusually broad diversity of project types.
In the course of our 39 years of combined experience we have worked on a wide variety of projects for corporate and government clients, public and private schools, colleges and universities, businesses and individuals. These projects have included master planning, educational planning, design and documentation for playfields, courtyards, classrooms, residence halls, libraries, instructional media centers, student centers, football stadiums, parking garages, early childhood education centers, elementary, middle and high schools, university business and government schools, among others. Our roles in these projects have been as wide ranging as the projects themselves. We have been design team members, job captains, landscape architects, project architects and just about everything between.
Our design philosophy is simple: We believe that successful projects depend first upon a comprehensive understanding of the project site and it's surroundings, and secondly that that understanding, when influenced by the project program and budget is the inspiration for the most logical and economical organization of the site, as well as the form, organization and detailing of it's buildings.
Perhaps the greatest potential benefit of a site-based approach like this is, the opportunity it affords to develop a seamless outside-to-inside design expression which is at once continuous within itself, harmonious within its surroundings and beautifully appropriate to its purpose.
"The purpose of a design is to affect the people who use it, and in an architectural composition this effect is a continuous, unbroken flow of impressions that assault the senses as they move through it. For a design to be a work of art the impressions it produces in the participator must be not only continuous but harmonious at every instant and from every view point. It is the failure of the architect to project himself into the mind and spirit of the people who are to experience his designs that causes much of the staccato feeling to be noted in work today…"
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