t e r r e n e is a boutique landscape design studio in san francisco.

t e r r e n e approaches every garden as a love letter, written with equal parts discipline and exuberance.

t e r r e n e integrates the regional, personal, and universal, blending presence of place with a client’s unique sensibility into a holistic living landscape. stylistically dexterous, the studio mines the forces of sky and soil, flora and fauna, to amplify your own eden. here, the mythic meets the everyday. here, design is as much formal exercise as a catalyst for expanding the social life of a place—dwellers, neighbors, hawks, swallowtails, rabbits, rhizomes, and bees. the social life is the ecological life, the interactive buzz among us all. soon you’re sharing morning tea with hummingbirds, an oak’s dappled canopy presides over drowsy siesta, and the evening meal goes down with the lightshow of the setting sun.

t e r r e n e loves collaborations -- for they are what makes creativity go round. co-creating with artisans, craftsfolk, horticulturists, contractors, carpenters, concretists, engineers, arborists, and nature aficionados one and all makes the work sing. without the talents and skills of those good with their hands, the designs would remain mere drawings. your labor moves mountains (or at least their parts).

time is the ultimate collaborator, with which we all work—into whose infinite stream we move a mound of earth here and plant some green things there—and watch what season upon season has to say to the living offering we put forth . . .

t e r r e n e is rebecca sunter and collaborators. 

rebecca was trained at uc berkeley’s masters of landscape architecture program and the offices of lutsko associates, john northmore roberts & associates, and bernard trainor’s ground studio. before formal design education, she lived and worked on farms and ran a garden design/build operation specializing in edible and medicinal gardens. she has taught landscape design studios, hand drafting, and regularly sits on jury reviews at uc berkeley. her design competition work and collaborations have been awarded by the national park service, the landscape architecture foundation, national capital planning commission, national university of singapore, university of california, the thomas church prize, diablo garden club, and van alen institute.

rebecca was reared in the new england wood, a mile down a dirt road from a lake, and is on a perpetual hunt for freshwater swim holes and steamy hot springs. she lives in san francisco’s potrero hill with her partner and indoor and outdoor plant babes.