Amie always speaks her truth. She is one of the most authentic people I know and that is reflected in innovative and authentic designs.
- Amy Levi, Founder, Strada Advertising, CO
Amie MacPhee: Founder/Owner
Amie MacPhee leads the strategic and creative teams at Cultivate. Inspired by the California oak woodland landscape of her childhood, Amie has made a career designing, advocating for, and creating environments where people and nature can thrive. For Amie, landscape architecture is the melding of art, design, nature and stewardship to lay the groundwork for lasting vibrant and healthy environments. She thinks of herself, foremost, as a steward of the natural world, and approaches all design efforts as an integrated system of the region’s legacy, culture and nature.
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Amie’s strength is in helping clients and communities create a shared vision that catalyzes innovative designs and judicious implementation approaches. She cares deeply about changing the “business as usual” approaches to designing environments and is passionate about crafting solutions that cultivate places of lasting value. This includes leading creative teams, communities, and stakeholders through the process of thinking through a fully thought-out vision to realize shared project and community goals.
Amie’s training in Landscape and Environmental Design at UC Berkeley enriches her background in conservation, community planning and landscape architecture. Coupled with her 30-year history as a Principal at Hart Howerton, an international planning and architecture firm, she brings a rich history and thoughtfulness to all design and planning endeavors. She founded Cultivate in 2011 to bring together her interests in reinventing the way we improve land to deliver resilient places around a successful economic model.
Candice Miller:
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Candice translates design ideas into unique presentations and visual materials that communicate the subtleties of a project’s character, vision and principles. She leads all graphic and visual materials design so that Cultivate has the tools to communicate ideas effectively. She is a truly inventive and masterful designer and brings a fresh point of view to each of Cultivate’s projects. Prior to joining Cultivate, she worked in Hart Howerton’s graphics department for over 10 years, as one of their lead designers. When Candice is not working on Cultivate projects she is a movie enthusiast, dog mom, novice chef, and ambling city explorer.
Zina Kumar:
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Zina provides bookkeeping expertise at Cultivate. She helps keep our numbers in order while we focus on keeping our studio productive, creative and innovative. Zina enjoys cooking for her family and friends. She loves the outdoors and being able to take in all the serenity that surrounds her.
Grace Dougan:
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Grace provides all around studio support from human resources to business strategy and systems organization. She fulfills the role of our studio’s comptroller as well as assistance in keeping us organized. When Grace takes a break from her work at Cultivate, you can find her playing with her two daughters, hiking to waterfalls, or out to eat something tasty.
Strategic Alliances
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Sandra Kulli
Kulli Marketing
Sandra combines her talents of a deep knowledge of the real estate development industry, branding and storytelling to focus on how we should be building in the 21st century to create long lasting, vibrant communities.
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Serena Unger
Urban Rural Regional Strategies LLC
Serena offers 25 years of multi-disciplinary experience in local and state planning policy, child-friendly cities, international development, sustainable food systems, land and natural resource conservation, climate action, and economic and community development.
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Suzi Brenner, PLA
BDG*LA
Suzi has been practicing landscape architectural design for 25 years, and brings a varied and deep knowledge of site and planting design to all her creative efforts.
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder