John Strauss Associates

Thank you for visiting our online office and gallery. We appreciate YOU, our newest client, and are grateful that you would consider working with us to create that longed for garden or outdoor space you might have wanted for years. BEGIN NOW by experiencing a sampling of what we have designed, created, or built over the past two decades in some of Atlanta's most desirable communities. We want to make your dream a reality and help you preserve or enhance your property's value. We can also help you solve those recurring drainage issues or replace that worn out driveway, deck, retaining wall, or fence.

John Strauss Associates is a comprehensive design-build firm specializing in landscape architecture and exterior construction for residential, commercial, and institutional properties. The company operates as a design-build contractor or works with other design professionals to implement their plans as well. In either case, our team approaches each project with the foundation of landscape architecture, while attending to construction detailing, circulation patterns, and the integration of "floor, wall, and ceiling" concept for creating outdoor spaces.

Fencing and screening can provide privacy as well as a vertical element to each project. Arbors and trellises allow a structure to train additional vegetation to ornament and add life to both a vertical element and a degree of "ceiling" in the landscape. Water problems are guaranteed in any landscape project if not addressed from the beginning of the project. Much of our work consists of retrofitting jobs where these details were overlooked by the builder, homeowner, or inexperienced landscaper.

Obviously lifestyle must dictate the expansive garden design practice. What's good for an empty nester will not be the same as for a family with 5 children under the age of 10. Need and function should be your top consideration. It does not have to dominate the long-term implementation. The residential garden design process should allow for growth and long term goals. Life is a movie not a snapshot. Planning can allow for this chronological progression with longer term transformations of varying space that doesn't require an entire do-over.