SLA is an interdisciplinary collective of people working within the trinity of nature, people, and design. Founded as Stig L. Andersson Landscape Architects by Stig L. Andersson in 1994, it is now owned by a group of three senior partners: founding partner Stig L. Andersson, architect and CEO Mette Skjold, and landscape architect and design principal Rasmus Astrup.
SLA has evolved into an interdisciplinary, nature-based design studio with a global presence and offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Oslo: three offices, twelve disciplines, more than 25 nationalities, and 130 people.
It also has ten partners: design director Louise Fiil Hansen; COO Klavs Holm Madsen; studio manager, SLA Aarhus, Karsten Thorlund; R&D director Alexandra Vindfeld Hansen; studio manager, SLA Copenhagen, Rasmus Grandelag; head of the Chinese market Fred Yuhe Zhang; lead design architect Sune Rieper; CFO Bo Danielsen; project director Salka Kudsk; and lead design architect Nicoline Heather Madsen.
Together, they are landscape architects, biologists, anthropologists, city planners, lighting designers, architects, planting experts, urban designers, ecologists, PhDs, safety experts, and forest engineers.
In all their projects, they mix creativity and science and collaborate across professions and disciplines to provide holistic and innovative solutions to some of today’s biggest urban problems. They love to put their interdisciplinary design method to use together with ambitious clients, involved stakeholders, and engaged citizens.
Today, they are recognized as one of the world’s leading nature-based design studios, whose work addresses the major global challenges of urbanization, the climate crisis, and biodiversity extinction while creating livable, meaningful, and resilient places for life.
Photograph by Jan-Sondergaard.
