A Powerful Story of Perseverance: The Proud Legacy of the Geechee People of Sapelo Island In 2021, the studio had the opportunity to work on the Sagewood masterplan, a project spanning some 700 acres in Putnam county Georgia. Given the client’s African American roots and his generational ties to Georgia, a core tenet of the […]
Founder, Richard Jones, launched iO Studio in January 2020, after serving as President and Director of Design at the Baltimore based landscape architecture firm, Mahan Rykiel Associates. It was during his time there that he began to explore the processes which drive design, with the goal of better understanding the myriad mechanisms and pool of […]
Less is More – Smart Strategies in Maintaining Urban Green Areas It may take a little while to recalibrate one’s idea of what ‘beauty’ is in the context of urban green spaces (it certainly did for me) to appreciate the strategy some German cities have deployed in restoring natural habitat. I spent much of my […]