Andreas X. Stavropoulos

I have successfully completed a range of publicly and privately commissioned design projects including landscapes, dwellings, and products.  I try to draw on the diverse hands-on knowledge of the professional fields that I have been involved in – education, geotechnical work, theatrical design and construction, as well as the crafts and hobbies that I have enjoyed: stained glass, sculpture, weaving, ceramics, and mechanics.

I try to create landscapes that are composed with sensitivity, clarity, and whimsy.

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Andreas holds a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley and is a registered landscape architect in the state of California.  His work has been featured in Dwell, Sunset, and ID Magazine, Fast Company, Daily Candy, The Seattle Times, The Dartmouth Engineer and Azure Magazine.

Andreas has been a course instructor at University of California Berkeley (planting design & studio), and Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont (small dwellings design).  He has been a guest speaker at the Garden Conservancy and Flora Grubb Nursery about his product, The Chickencrib. He spent an amazing summer working as an interpretive naturalist in Denali National Park, and worked for four years of college at Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts, where he eventually became the lead carpenter.

Patricia Algara


Patricia Algara grew up in San Luis Potosi, Central Mexico. One of her grandfathers was an acclaimed architect, and the other was a rancher on whose farm she spent much of her childhood. From this upbringing, springs her passion and appreciation for beautifully designed and food-productive landscapes. She founded and continues to run a teaching garden in Berkeley, CA, complete with bees, mushroom towers, and other wonders of the agricultural world.

She has always had a passion for empowering communities, and believes that self sufficiency is a critical means for achieving it. After working for a women’s rights organization she earned a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture in order to incorporate design solutions through participation. She has worked on a wide range of landscape architecture projects, involving outdoor and indoor learning environments for children, urban parks, schools, zoos and streetscapes.

Recently, she collaborated in the master plan and planting plan for The Job Corps Farm on Treasure Island. She is a Permaculture designer and avid beekeeper who strives to apply lessons that she has learned from the bees in her designs to create beautiful, highly functional, organic, structured forms.