OJB Landscape Architecture

OJB Landscape Architecture is a landscape architecture and urban design firm founded in 1989 and based in Houston, with studios in Boston, Philadelphia, and San Diego. The firm designs public plazas, campuses, mixed-use grounds, and civic open space, and its work often anchors the pedestrian experience of large developments. OJB handled the landscape design for CityCentre Six in West Houston, including the new half-acre urban plaza that ties the office tower into the surrounding retail and residential district. The studio has a national reputation for park and public-realm work that treats landscape as core infrastructure rather than decoration.

OJB Landscape Architecture was founded in Houston in 1989 as the Office of James Burnett, and Houston remains its anchor — the studio also runs the firm’s Continuing Care program, overseeing installation and long-term maintenance of the plants and natural materials in OJB landscapes. The practice has grown well past 100 professionals, a mix of landscape architects, architects, planners, horticulturists, and plant scientists, working from offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Boston, Philadelphia, and San Diego, with newer footholds in Kansas City, London, and Brisbane.

The firm’s project range is unusually wide for a landscape practice. It groups its work into a dozen focus areas — parks, urban planning and design, infrastructure, renovations and repositioning, healthcare and wellness, cultural and civic, hospitality and retail, private gardens, workplace, academic, mixed-use and housing, and sports and entertainment. Recent high-profile work includes the landscape and site design for a new Washington Commanders stadium.

OJB’s design position centers on the smart use of local resources and native planting, shaping spaces that consider foot traffic and everyday usability rather than treating landscape as decoration. That approach has drawn national recognition: the firm received the 2020 National Design Award in landscape architecture from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the American Society of Landscape Architects’ 2015 Firm Award. The company now operates publicly under the ojb-studios.com domain.