Landscape Architecture is about people and their action on and interaction with the man made and natural environment which is their surroundings and the setting for their activities. It is about the design of change, the search for elegant solutions to problems that takes in everything from aesthetic considerations to science and management.

MTLA provides wide ranging services in all landscape matters. With over 30 years’ experience working on behalf of a wide range of national and international clients underlying it, the practice seeks to provide unique solutions which go much further than simply expressing the character of designers.

The problem is not deciding what to do with pieces of land; it is deciding how to arrange the existing land – to imagine and create a new landscape pattern on an existing landscape.

Its approach to master planning and design for example is firmly rooted in revealing the character of a site by fully understanding its development over time, whether as a result of natural or man-made processes or, as is usually the case, both. It then seeks to understand how the site is currently valued and on what basis before considering its potential for change.

In terms of design, whilst individual buildings, engineering structures and landscapes have the power to inspire and impress, it is the art of making places that leaves a far greater and longer lasting legacy, and has more profound effects.

The MTLA approach seeks always to develop a process which connects the historic and current context with an imaginative future thus creating a distinctive place particular to site, client, user and other interested parties requirements and aspirations. This approach builds good working relationships, ensures that key issues are identified and addressed, and options assessed in developing practical and imaginative solutions sensitive to context. Each project is a new situation and deserves a new solution.

MTLA also works closely with a number of related specialist firms in the fields of planning, ecology, arboriculture, archaeology, hydrology, forestry, engineering and architecture. Among others, these include the landscape architects, Horner+Maclennan, Carol Anderson and Vanessa Stephen and the computer graphics consultancy Envision, co-founded in 1999 with Dr Ian McAulay and chaired by Mark Turnbull which provides computer mapping, research, GIS, visualisation, photomontage and compter graphics services.

MTLA is thus able to provide complete solutions on any scale and at any level of specialisation.

It is not just what you deliver, but how good you are at delivering it, which brings success.