David Bartsch Bartsch Landscape Architecture

What are your favorite design sources?

My design sources are the wide-ranging and extraordinary places I’ve visited through decades of travel. I enjoy isolating the essential qualities that make these places unique and special, and I measure how certain features coalesce and contribute to their setting. The result is an ever-growing sourcebook of photographs, notes, memories, and reference materials. In my creative work, I interpret, repurpose, and apply these place-characteristics to projects of a different scope, size, and location, helping to solve functional issues and to create exceptional places that feel right.

What is your design philosophy?

These days, whether you’re working from home, or you’d love to spend more time there, the quality of your landscape is important. We help to bring out the best of your outdoors, whether it’s more privacy, a new inground pool or spa with innovative features, a unique pergola beside a firepit, tennis or sport courts, or cooking, dining, and garden spaces to entertain your family and friends. And it’s all crafted to your lifestyle and needs. Established in 1999, Bartsch Landscape Architecture brings elegant and cost-effective site-planning and design solutions, project management, and close attention to detail to those who want creative, beautiful, and lasting results. David brings decades of experience and a service-oriented attitude to the first meetings, and he carries that through to the wrap-up of construction oversight. He works closely with owners, other consultants, and trusted contractors for successful custom settings. No matter the scale or scope of the changes you envision, David brings his full and long-established technical, aesthetic, and organizational expertise to landscape improvements that make a positive difference.

I believe we can always improve how we go about creating beautiful places that engage, inspire, function well, and that respect natural systems and cultural significance, all at a fair cost. I believe it is the duty of everyone involved to meet these demands and, in the process, to act with integrity.

What motivates you?

I was lucky to have parents who believed in exposing our large family to the wonders of camping and hiking and exploring the world around us. From an early age, the quality of our surroundings was important. So, there could be no better vocation than to help define the spaces in which we live, work, and play. The great outdoors was my professional calling. My motivation is new interpretations of space and form, with the goal to create new places of distinctive character, but also to capture the spirit, the craftsmanship, and the beauty of the extraordinary places I’ve visited for unique projects that reflect clients’ needs, their context, and purpose.

Bartsch

Landscape Architecture

Mason, NH, and Nantucket and Boston, MA 508-410-7979 bartschla.com