OJB works collaboratively as one landscape architecture firm across our offices. As active participants in our local communities, we also strive to amplify and celebrate the distinct qualities that make each place unique.
Leading Landscape Architecture + Planning
OJB looks to the future. Our urban design and planning methods utilize Colorado’s natural environment to create an experience that fosters connection. An OJB space is highly functional for gatherings and events while elevating the area’s inherent beauty.
OJB’s core values are pragmatism, dependability, and forward-thinking design. We use evidence-based design practices to carefully craft enriching areas. Our holistic approach ensures that spaces are continually maintained to serve residents for years to come.
Jim Burnett, FASLA is a leading voice in contemporary landscape practice through his writing, advocacy and dedication to creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture. After earning his Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University, Jim founded the Office of James Burnett in 1989 and has continued to lead the firm for more than 30 years. Originally aspiring to be an architect, Jim’s passion for landscape architecture blossomed under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Reich at LSU’s Environmental Design School.
From the beginning of his professional practice, Jim has been keenly interested in the intersection of landscape and wellness, and the power of nature to profoundly change the way we experience the world. Jim was instrumental in using landscape to heighten the healthcare industry’s awareness of its critical importance in patient comfort and advancing patient rehabilitation and expediting patient recovery schedules. He helped change the healthcare design conversation from “illness” to “wellness” and established a need for early inclusion of a landscape program into the design process. Jim’s innovative approach exposed patients, healthcare professionals, and visitors to a new environment that allowed them to experience the beauty of nature in the form of new gardens, trails, courtyards, roof gardens, and fountains. Jim’s influence and perspective on healing and restorative design have changed the role of landscape architects on healthcare facilities ever since.
A natural connector and collaborator, Jim’s work weaves together multiple disciplines to bring science and design together in surprising new ways of accommodating human interaction. Jim’s most recent design work has been focused on the restoration of our cities and the aesthetic, economic, environmental, and social transformation of our urban centers. Through his design of great urban parks, he has been at the forefront on the integration of strong programming into the design process and operations of the parks. The success of these efforts is clearly evident in cities such as Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Houston, to name just a few.
Jim was appointed to the US Department of the State Industry Advisory Group in 2016 and is currently serving his second term as a respected design peer. He is a frequent speaker and invited critic on urban planning and landscape design of public parks and open spaces. Jim is a tireless representative of the profession through many lectures, visits to schools, and published articles. He is a strong spokesman for the ASLA and landscape design. He has served on many ASLA committees, including awards juries where he has served chairman and the CEO Roundtable.
Jim is a Registered Landscape Architect in 26 US states and Canada. In 2004, Jim was elected to ASLA’s Council of Fellows, and in 2016 Jim was honored as the recipient of the prestigious ASLA Design Medal, an annual designation that is bestowed upon Landscape Architects for their ongoing commitment to the profession and an exemplary sustained body of work. Jim and the OJB practice are the 2020 National Design award recipients for Landscape Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum.
Jason earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Maryland and an Associate of Fine Arts from Keystone College in Pennsylvania. He is also a licensed landscape architect in Texas. Known for his superior technical knowledge and ability to translate design drawings into responsive built landscapes, Jason is a Technical Director working in the Denver office. His flexible approach to problem-solving conditions in the field while protecting design intent is a hallmark of his capabilities. With more than a decade of experience working with public and private clients, Jason carefully builds consensus while advancing design innovation. Skilled in integrating nature in built, urban environments, Jason has been a key contributor and manager for many challenging, intricately layered landscapes. His diverse project portfolio includes city plazas, streetscapes, public parks, and mixed-use developments. His hands-on capabilities can be seen in every aspect of his life, from creative woodworking to undertaking house renovations.
Brittany earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design and Architecture from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a Director in the Denver office, Brittany has ten years of experience in design-focused and project management roles. Despite working on a wide range of project types, Brittany has found her passion in working on residential gardens. Brittany’s stance on design – every design has a story to tell – is echoed in her work by taking a holistic approach to the overall project. She strives to think critically about the landscape’s relationship to the architecture and interiors to execute a harmonious relationship between all three. She feels that exterior materials bring harmony to the architecture, while planting design can give the landscape its own identity. Whether the project demands botanical interest or restoration of a native landscape, she dives into the planting design giving it great thought. Working in several different regions with differing plant palettes has greatly expanded her experience with planting design. Her personal interests collide with professional explorations when it comes to garden design. Whether experimenting in her personal garden with various plant species, researching the latest developments in the profession, or diving in deep on a project-specific plant design, Brittany takes a project-by-project approach to finding the right solution to each project, because each site will ask something different of the design.
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