Ecotopes

Ecotopes LifeCycle provides specialized maintenance services + ongoing support to completed Ecotopes projects, as well as all other alternative landscapes around Austin, such as gardens with a sustainability focus, xeriscapes or any place where native habitats are emphasized.

For our purposes, an ecotope is a bundle of attributes that factor into design at a given location in the landscape. They are the accumulated characteristics surrounding + intermingling with each spot on the terrestrial surface. Sometimes an ecotope is teeny-tiny. Move a couple feet in one direction or another, the conditions change + boom, you're in a different ecotope. Sometimes they're enormous, think about the landscape surrounding Marfa, Texas. The concept for Ecotopes (the company) emerged from intensive graduate study at the University of Texas at Austin's Landscape Architecture program from 2003 to 2007, which honed our insight into ecological influences in design, relationships in the cultural landscape between Mexico, Europe + Texas, fostering environmental stewardship + a thoughtful design process to tie everything together.