Meet Terry Horst Landscape Architecture
Terry Horst Landscape Architecture, a certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE), specializes in the design of outdoor spaces for human activity. We are an established firm that provides these services directly to clients such as schools, colleges, architects and municipalities. We provide a personalized service with an emphasis on thorough background research and a sound implementation process tailored to your individual needs.
Terry Horst Landscape Architecture has been in operation for over 65 years, building long term relationships with our clients to obtain quality educational facilities and municipal site plan approvals for projects ranging from housing to healthcare to commercial to industrial projects. Our small size gives us flexibility that larger firms don't have. Our senior landscape architects personally work on each project, bringing a wide array of experience in most aspects of land planning, design and site development.
Interns
Terry Horst Landscape Architeture regularly engages student interns from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, usually working on their Bachelor or Master of Landscape Architecture degrees, to assist us with various aspects of our business. Not only are we interested in giving back and providing students with "real life" opportunities, but the students bring fresh ideas and new perspectives to our work.
Key Attributes of Terry Horst Architecture, PC
We bring to your project team unparalleled qualities of commitment, respect, hard work and the experience required to ensure a finished project that will be a lasting and proud amenity. Our contribution can be broken down into four attributes:
Commitment
Our first commitment is to work with you to develop a project that provides a positive visual and functional addition to the environment of your project. Our ability to achieve this end is facilitated by our commitment to the design process and its impact on people and their relationships with their environment. As part of this process, we are skilled at working with our clients to involve them and their ideas and goals in the design development phase of a project. This input, on your part, will combine with our knowledge of people's relationship to their environment, the intrinsic values of various materials and construction processes. This combination will result in the development of design concepts that reflect your goals and aspirations.Respect
The second attribute that we will bring to your team is one of respect. A respect for you as a client and as a knowledgeable partner on the project team with a defined program that is to be implemented in the final constructed project. As skilled professionals, we bring to the team a respect for construction materials, processes, and their limitations and attributes. Terry Horst Landscape Architecture has a policy of continuous education and awareness of materials and their technical execution in construction process. This knowledge results in cost-effective construction detailing and long-term, low maintenance cost to the owner.Dedication to Hard Work
At Terry Horst Landscape Architecture we bring a dedication to hard work to the project team. Once retained by a client we bring to their project our attention and resources as professionals. No problem that may occur is too small or too large; no question goes unanswered or delayed due to other conflicts. At Terry Horst Landscape Architecture, we are where we need to be before we need to be there. Our hard work ethic and attentiveness to our client's needs is best demonstrated by years of continuous working relationships with clients such as the City of Syracuse, the City of Rome, Rome Housing Authority, Onondaga Community College, and numerous architects.Experience
Terry Horst Landscape Architecture brings to a project extensive experience in the development of open spaces for people through the creative use of materials and sound construction detailing. Our completed projects are representative of our ability to create pleasing areas for people to use, whether it be for walking, sitting, talking, watching others, or just being. Although they are all for different clients with different needs, they are all open spaces for human use. The materials used to create these spaces are essentially all the same: Brick, Concrete, Pebbled Concrete, Stone, and Plant materials arranged in different spaces as walkways, seating areas, privacy areas, entries, focal points, views, and visitors. We have the design capability to arrange these materials taking advantage of their intrinsic characteristics of color, texture, and form to enhance the use of open spaces.History of Terry Horst Landscape Architecture, PC
1954
Harold Schumm founded Schumm Associates Landscape Architects and Land Planners, a full service firm.
1968
Robert Werle joined the firm as a partner to create Schumm & Werle Associates.
1972
Allan Maxian was hired as an associate.
1978
Allan Maxian became a partner, creating Schumm, Werle & Maxian.
1982
Bob Werle left to found a firm in Nashville and Schumm & Maxian was created. For the next 20+ years, Harry and Al worked with municipalities, school districts, private developers, and as consultants on a multitude of projects.
1990
Terry Horst was hired as an associate.
1999
Harry Schumm retired, and Terry Horst became a partner, creating Maxian + Horst.
2012
The firm received its WBE Certification, creating Maxian + Horst PLLC, WBE.
2019
Terry Horst acquired full ownership of the firm and renamed it Terry Horst Landscape Architecture, PC
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