About SFLA | Steve Ford Landscape Architecture
Steve Ford, Professional Landscape Architect, opened SFLA | Steve Ford Landscape Architecture in July of 2016. A Landscape Architect for more than 35 years, Steve has worked for a handful of highly reputable architectural, engineering and landscape architecture firms. His wide ranging experience includes campus and master plan design, urban design, sports facilities, parks and trail design, memorials, and residential landscape design.
He received his training at Iowa State University and worked in city planning and at an architectural firm in South Dakota early in his career. Following that, he worked in the Minneapolis metro area doing residential landscape architecture for a design build firm before moving to the Iowa City area permanently. Some of his local projects include the Iowa Firefighter’s Memorial and the Clear Creek Trail in Coralville, the University of Iowa Credit Union headquarters and the new entries to Carver Hawkeye Arena and the Fountain Entrance at UIHC.
Steve believes the success of a design project begins early in the visioning phase where all ideas are good and unimagined design options can be explored. He calls this the big picture and uses the technique to understand and the needs of the client and discover all creative possibilities for a project.
His avocation is illustration and painting in which he excels in pen and ink drawing and pastel painting. For a sampling of his artistic endeavors, take a look a his portfolio.
He and his wife, Wendy, are parents to 4 grown kids, a cat and a dog. Together, they enjoy traveling to National Parks and hiking area trails closer to home.
