Landings Studio is a family centred design practice that utilises the co-founders background in horticulture and architecture.
Our Team
Dave
Dave is our resident plantsman. He began his career as an architectural draftsman and is now a qualified horticulturalist who’s worked in commercial nurseries, as a landscaping site coordinator and as a designer in a boutique landscape design practice.
When he’s not in the Landings Studio, you’ll find his hands in the dirt managing the productive garden at a local hospitality high school. He is a practical problem solver and details-focused practitioner with an exceptional horticultural knowledge of subtropical plants, including endemic species and permaculture principles.
He thrives in collaboration and conversation with fellow gardeners and guides our clients purposefully in achieving horticultural outcomes that suit their budget, lifestyle, skills, aesthetics and interests. As parents and partners in life and business, Emma and Dave collaborate to ensure architectural and horticultural objectives are pursued simultaneously.
We integrate Dave’s knowledge into and across all our work and we would love to hear from you if you have a project in mind that could benefit from horticultural expertise or if you’d like some on-site garden mentoring.
Emma
Emma has been working in architectural practice across a variety of scales and typologies from housing, healthcare, institutional and education sectors for 18 years. She grew up in the north-western suburbs of Meanjin and it’s this bioregion and specific subtropical climate that she seeks to know and contribute to.
Em has a passion for community led projects and social justice. In 2019 the Australian Institute of Architects awarded her the Queensland Emerging Architect Prize recognising her contributions to design and the broader community. Emma has also worked as a project manager for Architects Without Frontiers and a past Associate of Parlour, an organisation advocating for equity in the built environment.
Em founded Landings Studio with her husband garden designer David Pratt because they wanted to experiment with a kind of practice that blurs the boundaries between horticulture and architecture and allowed them to co-parent more collaboratively. Ultimately their personal life and professional practices merge and they are particularly interested in supporting sustainable food systems and democratic education.
Emma’s intention is to serve the people in her local community and apply her knowledge and skills to projects in her neighbourhood. She believes in the fundamental importance of research in professional practice and maintain teaching and academic roles as well as seeking opportunities for independent research.