We are a design-focused landscape architecture studio working on special projects across the country. Our work reflects our deep analysis of native plants, beautiful materials, and layered site histories.
Our work focuses on historic landscape preservation, museums and cultural institutions, and campuses and universities.
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OUR WORK
Seelman Landscape Architecture’s studio is located on the ancestral lands of the Ioway, Meskwaki, Sauk, and Lakota nations, who historically hunted its woodlands, harvested its fields, fished its waterways, and tended its prairies.
SLA acknowledges the Indigenous peoples who stewarded this land for thousands of years prior to colonial settlement and who were forcibly displaced from their territories.
Our work engages the land through research, stewardship, and collaboration, including learning from Indigenous landscape practices that were obscured by settlement and educating ourselves and our clients about the places we inhabit.
We work with museums, cultural nonprofits, universities, public agencies, and private clients to plan and design landscapes that are functional, ecologically resilient, and rooted in place.
We have projects in Connecticut, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Select projects include:
Brucemore National Trust Historic Site
Post-Derecho Historic Landscape Restoration
Museum of Danish America
Campus Landscape Master Plan
Collaboration with Jensen Ecology
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Entry Memorial Park
Mays Island
Sculpture Park Master Plan
Esta Barrett Manor & Gardens
Historic Formal Sunken Garden Restoration
Collaboration with Jensen Ecology
University of Iowa
Quad Green Student Green Space
Iowa Memorial Union South Plaza
Iowa Riverfront Master Plan
Iowa State University
Community Visioning: Scotch Grove, Volga, Kalona
SLA TEAM
CONTACT
Brett Seelman, PLA, ASLA
Founding Principal
Brett Seelman is a seventh-generation Iowan and the Founding Principal of Seelman Landscape Architecture. He is closely involved in every project, from early analysis through documentation and implementation, with a focus on civic and cultural landscapes, campus and district-scale planning, and the coordination required to deliver complex public work.
Alex Priest, ASLA
Senior Associate
Alex Priest, ASLA is a Senior Associate and Project Manager at Seelman Landscape Architecture, where he contributes to design development, research, and project coordination across the firm’s place-sensitive work. His experience spans historic preservation, landscape analysis, and public engagement, with a focus on translating institutional goals, community priorities, and local context into clear, implementable design strategies.
Collaborators
Heidi Hohmann
Landscape Historian
Iowa State University, Department of Landscape Architecture
Jens Jensen
Ecologist
Jensen Ecology
Lama Hasan
Designer
Risa Puleo
Art Historian
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