Joe Porter, PLA

Joe Porter is a licensed Landscape Architect with over twenty years of experience working on academic and corporate campuses, brownfield redevelopments, green roofs, greenway corridors, mixed-use developments, parks, plazas, streetscapes, residences, resorts, and waterfronts throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. His involvement with these projects has included every aspect of the design process, from conception through completion.

Joe strives to design spaces that are environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. His approach starts with listening and his aesthetic is malleable, which facilitates a process that respects the Client’s goals and objectives while being flexible enough to accommodate for change.

Joe is passionate about the democratization of space through universal and contextually-sensitive design. He enjoys creative problem solving within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team environment.

Joe founded FIGURE-GROUND in 2018.