Michael Dollin, ASLA, RLA
Principal and Owner since 1989

Urban designer, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, and educator are all titles used to describe Michael Dollin. An award winning landscape architect, Michael is a collaborator, facilitator and creative urbanist who resides and works in Central Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan region of the Sonoran Desert.

With over twenty years of experience on a wide range of built and published projects, much of his work is in the public realm. Emphasizing integration of design and environment, his work consistently seeks to elevate the quality of the constructed world.

Michael Dollin began his private practice in 1989 after a decade of work with leading multidisciplinary architecture, planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firms, working primarily in Arizona, Texas, and the Middle East. He constantly strives to bring a higher quality of design professionalism and environmental sensitivity to the urban environment, with a particular focus on desert cities. His belief that the urban, constructed environment is a living system, subject to both human and natural principles is the foundation of the work of the firm.

Michael has also been affiliated with Arizona State University as a faculty research associate since 1989 and the Joint Urban Design program, now called Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL) at the ASU Downtown Center since 1991. Project work at the Phoenix Urban Research lab includes pedestrian and streetscape studies for downtown Phoenix; planning and design charrettes and publications for many communities; and community outreach and research. He has also taught a variety of courses in urban design and landscape architecture as a faculty associate.

Master of the Southwest