Based in Kansas City, Missouri, KEM STUDIO is an award-winning design firm that fuses architecture and industrial design, a combination that’s a natural extension of their underlying design philosophy: Better Design, Better Living. The company is all about making design more approachable, livable and present in people’s everyday lives, a perspective that inspired Landscape Forms to collaborate with KEM STUDIO in creating the innovative Upfit adaptive outdoor structure system. Read More >>

As a graduate student at the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, Rodrigo Torres discovered a profound connection between his Latin American cultural and modernist influences and the school's approach to design as a marriage of the whimsical with the rational, the fun with the functional. Read More >>

Since 2007, Landscape Forms has partnered with the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) to offer annual scholarships for distinguished undergraduate landscape architecture students. This year proudly marks the 14th annual Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt, and the introduction of the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Scholarship. Read More >>

Principal of Scott Klinker Design Studio and Designer-in-Residence at the renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 3D Design Program, Scott Klinker explores the intersections and spaces between design, architecture, art and craft. This fluid, interdisciplinary approach, which Klinker describes as “remixing,” has become a hallmark of his work. Read More >>

Believe it or not, only three percent of today’s total philanthropic contributions go toward the environment. We believe our planet needs greater support. As part of our continuing efforts toward sustainability, we’re proud to announce that Landscape Forms has joined 1% for the Planet. Read More >>

Solutions to help corporate facilities bring elements of their workspaces outdoors are not only relevant in helping planners and managers adapt to the current expectations they face in the wake of COVID-19. Integrating unique outdoor experiences into the workplace will continue to play a key role in elevating a property’s desirability and the quality of life for those who inhabit it. Read More >>

When New York City-born Andrea Cochran, FASLA, first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981, she initially assumed her stay would be brief—a short stint, maybe a couple years taking in a fresh landscape and new inspiration. But little did she know this short stint would eventually blossom into a 40-year career as one of the West Coast’s most influential contemporary landscape architects. Read More >>

"Imagine being able to design and create things that have never been done before,” muses Landscape Forms Chief Creative Officer, Kirt Martin. “That’s what MeldStone™ gives us. Having the capability to achieve really thin cross-sections of cast concrete with a lot of structural stability raises the bar on what cast concrete site furniture can be. It’s a new frontier.” Read More >>

For landscape architects, environmental accountability is an essential criterion in their work. And for Landscape Forms, it is a central focus to imbue this sense of accountability across all facets of its operation, working with its partner brands and design collaborators to continuously find new ways to mitigate its impact. Read More >>

In Landscape Forms’ largest lighting and modular bench collection introduced to-date, Typology creates a magnetic and immersive user experience. Each piece has distinct and memorable design features, but the overall sculptural quality, the unconventional juxtaposition of form, material and scale, and the artistic use of lighting within each component enable the collection to make a larger, unified statement. Read More >>

TUUCI is a Miami-based company known for its design and manufacture of premier umbrellas and shade structures for high-profile outdoor environments. Founded more than 15 years ago by a designer and sailing enthusiast with decades of experience in the boatbuilding industry, TUUCI specializes in shade. Read More >>

In a year that was “unprecedented” in many ways, the Landscape Forms manufacturing teams can close out 2020 by celebrating the unique position of receiving not one, but two industry-leading recognitions. Read More >>

Following renown ceramicist Ian McDonald, Issa is the second artist to bring new creative perspective and aesthetic vocabulary to Kornegay Design through its Visiting Artist Program. Her work often incorporates elements of intentional imperfection, creating nontraditional beauty out of traditionally discarded materials and organic, asymmetrical forms. Read More >>

We have long promoted the idea that integrating unique and innovative outdoor experiences into public spaces plays a key role in elevating the quality of life of the community. The Healthy Outdoor Spaces collection has been designed specifically to address the new concerns of the times, the overall benefits of activating and beautifying underutilized outdoor spaces are far-reaching and enduring. Read More >>

Upfit is an adaptive structure system with a modern style and endless flexibility to transform outdoor spaces into functional destinations. In the new era of social distancing and moving work, study and other activities outdoors, Upfit’s benefits have become even more acute. Its modular, scalable nature transforms underutilized outdoor areas into work spaces, classrooms, dining areas and meeting hubs, fully powered, lit and with the amenities people need to live, learn, work, care, play, and travel outdoors. Read More >>

Integral to our stated purpose to “Enrich Outdoor Spaces” is a strong dedication to sustainable product design and manufacturing processes, and the continual examination of how products and processes act upon the environment is requisite to achieving this goal. Read More >>

Chances are that some time in recent months you’ve dusted off that old bike in the garage, put on your walking shoes a little more regularly, or enjoyed other outdoor activities that are normally outside of your daily routine. We know being outside makes us feel better, but does it make us actually be better? Read More >>

“I remember the first time I met Kirt Martin and the other Landscape Forms folks—it was a cinematic, eyes-meeting-across-the-room type of moment,” recalls Greg Benson, Loll Designs Founder and CEO, with a laugh. Read More >>

Studio 431 offers its customers a unique opportunity to design and create one-of-a-kind site furnishings, using a comprehensive, consultative approach to bring custom projects come to life. Read More >>

Sixtysix, a national magazine exploring the world's most interesting and influential designers and creatives, recently paid a visit to our Michigan headquarters to learn more about the unique creative process that drives Landscape Forms. Read More >>

“How does it look?” The deceptively simple phrase, jot down years ago by artist, designer, and founder, Larry Kornegay, remains a fixture on the umber walls of the neatly appoint-ed and immaculately landscaped desert studio Read More >>

New from Landscape Forms, the Link seating system presents a new opportunity for designers of outdoor spaces: to achieve the scalability, elegance and creative freedom of custom, one-off site furnishings with added value and simplicity. Read More >>

Escofet is a Barcelona-based design firm who, through the creation of luxury site furnishings and urban elements, is an international leader in the movement to transform and beautify public landscapes. Read More >>

Held at a different university each year, LABash is an entirely student-run conference offering the next generation of landscape architects. Read More >>

As teaching methods move toward more active and collaborative approaches to learning, there is a significant opportunity to better incorporate the spaces outside of the four walls of the classroom. Read More >>

Landscape Forms is proud to continue its partnership with the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) to offer an annual scholarship for distinguished undergraduate landscape architecture students. Read More >>

Beginning with just three welding machines in 2011, the Landscape Forms Welding Academy has quickly become one of the top welding programs in the nation, producing some of the most skilled and knowledgeable welders worldwide. Read More >>