Richard Hartlage

About Richard Hartlage

Richard Hartlage is the founding principal and CEO of Land Morphology, a Seattle-based landscape architecture practice. Richard\'s award-winning, innovative designs are renowned as emotive, immersive spaces that incorporate sophisticated horticulture, artful detailing, and historical knowledge. His passion for horticulture, cultivated over 15 years working in public gardens and estates, is applied to each design from the conceptual phase through development of maintenance protocol and beyond. Richard\'s designs have been featured in the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, Pacific Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, At Home, Traditional Home, and The Seattle Times, in additional to other publications in the United States, Japan, and Europe. An avid writer and teacher, Richard has given over 350 lectures worldwide, has written over 60 articles on gardening and landscape design for national and international publications, and frequently serves on advisory committees and design juries for non-profits. He has contributed to five books on horticulture and design, including Bold Visions for the Garden, a collection of his essays and photography, and is currently working on a comprehensive book on American garden design.

Experience

1. Principal CEO

   Land Morphology

   Jan 2013 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Richard is founding partner and owner of an eleven person, and growing, office that designs, oversees construction and assists clients in management of significant private and public properties in eight states. Land Morphology’s specialty is public gardens and highly sophisticated, horticulturally complex estates, assisting the design, procurement of exceptional plants and often curation of significant plant collections. Deep experience managing logistics and budgets for nationally and internationally recognized clients assure utmost discretion and attention to the smallest detail including the design and coordination of the planting containers on our client’s properties. We have assisted in the procurement and siting of significant art on our projects and designed a wide range of artful landscape features. A comprehensive knowledge of plants, landscape architecture history, and property management ensure long and deep relationships, some going back twenty-five years, to create exceptional gardens that ensure client satisfaction and create plans for legacy projects intended for future generations.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

Skills

• Sustainability
• Horticulture
• Landscape Design
• Site Plans
• Garden Design
• Design Research
• Comprehensive Planning
• Land Use Planning
• Urban Planning
• Mixed-Use
• Tree Planting
• Drawing
• Concept Design
• Landscape Architecture
• Site Planning
• Sketching
• Landscaping
• Submittals
• Residential Design
• Parks
• Garden
• Sustainable Design
• Urban Design