Michelle Hook, senior Associate

EDUCATION: 

University of California, Berkeley, Master of Landscape Architecture; University of California, Davis, Bachelor of Science, Biology

EXPERIENCE:    

Michelle is inspired by places and people. She enjoys working with her clients to cultivate a landscape that speaks to her clients design sense as well as the local and regional environment. It is our landscapes which have the power to restore, seduce, heal and inspire. As a designer, Michelle’s practice is continually inspired by story telling, contemporary art, and history of place.

Michelle currently serves on the Design Review Board for the City of Richmond and is a member of the Trails of Richmond Action Committee (TRAC).

PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW: Michelle is an avid open water bay swimmer.

FAVORITE QUOTE: "A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” - Joan Didion