Company Description:
Christopher Counts is a designer interested in expanding the technical application, material expression, and experiential range of the medium of landscape architecture and urbanism. Be it at the scale of a garden or city, his approach is concerned with creating environments that communicate their beauty and logic through movement and bodily experience grounded in an integrated approach to sustainability.
Christopher Counts is the founding principal of CCS. The firms current projects range from a competition awarded $14.8 million redesign of Moore Square in Raleigh, North Carolina and a 1.6 billion designed landscape in Southern Chinas new mixed-use development.
Prior to founding CCS, Christopher was a Senior Associate at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in New York, where he provided design leadership on a broad range of projects. He was Project Designer for Bailey Plaza at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, which received the Building Stone Institute Tucker Design Award, and the internationally recognized ASLA Green Roof, which received the NYASLA Honor Award and is featured in Green Roof: A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, published in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press.
Christopher was Project Designer for the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, which encompassed 300 acres of post- industrial waterfront. The proposal used an integrated approach to ecology, urbanism, park design and infrastructure and received the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Honor Award in Analysis and Planning as well as the Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence.
Christopher has lectured widely at universities and professional conferences across the United States, including Harvard University, University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, Clemson University, and Auburn University.
Christopher was Adjunct Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, and been an invited speaker at two ASLA National Conferences, and the Green Roofs for Healthy Cites National Conference. His drawings and design work have been published in the New York Times, Landscape Architecture magazine, Garden Design magazine, Architectural Record, and Metropolis magazine.
Christopher was awarded the 2007 Rome Prize and attended the American Academy in Rome as the Prince Charitable Trusts Fellow in Landscape Architecture. He received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgias School of Environmental Design.
Christopher Counts is a designer interested in expanding the technical application, material expression, and experiential range of the medium of landscape architecture and urbanism. Be it at the scale of a garden or city, his approach is concerned with creating environments that communicate their beauty and logic through movement and bodily experience grounded in an integrated approach to sustainability.
Christopher Counts is the founding principal of CCS. The firms current projects range from a competition awarded $14.8 million redesign of Moore Square in Raleigh, North Carolina and a 1.6 billion designed landscape in Southern Chinas new mixed-use development.
Prior to founding CCS, Christopher was a Senior Associate at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in New York, where he provided design leadership on a broad range of projects. He was Project Designer for Bailey Plaza at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, which received the Building Stone Institute Tucker Design Award, and the internationally recognized ASLA Green Roof, which received the NYASLA Honor Award and is featured in Green Roof: A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, published in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press.
Christopher was Project Designer for the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, which encompassed 300 acres of post- industrial waterfront. The proposal used an integrated approach to ecology, urbanism, park design and infrastructure and received the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Honor Award in Analysis and Planning as well as the Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence.
Christopher has lectured widely at universities and professional conferences across the United States, including Harvard University, University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, Clemson University, and Auburn University.
Christopher was Adjunct Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, and been an invited speaker at two ASLA National Conferences, and the Green Roofs for Healthy Cites National Conference. His drawings and design work have been published in the New York Times, Landscape Architecture magazine, Garden Design magazine, Architectural Record, and Metropolis magazine.
Christopher was awarded the 2007 Rome Prize and attended the American Academy in Rome as the Prince Charitable Trusts Fellow in Landscape Architecture. He received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgias School of Environmental Design.