Hapa Collaborative is a landscape architecture and environmental design practice established withplacemaking, attentiveness and collaboration in mind. We see each project as an opportunity to partner, to dream big and to synthesize ideas wrought from many, often opposing, influences.  Our goal with each commission is to evoke the poetry of the place and in doing so reveal something delightful but perhaps previously unseen.  Most of all, Hapa Collaborative will be a new voice for contemporary landscape design and a small, agile and fresh alternative to traditional landscape architecture practice.

With over 15 years of experience around the globe, Hapa Collaborative works within the full breadth of scales from master plans to pocket parks, civic spaces to private residences, streetscapes to green roofs.  However we like to specialize in landscape urbanism, commemorative sites, residential gardens, public art, and community participation. We like to explore new materials, forge new relationships and ultimately build places that people remember.

Joseph Fry, BCSLA CSLA ASLA, is the principal and owner of Hapa Collaborative.  Joseph has over fifteen years of landscape design, construction, and project management experience regionally, nationally and internationally. His work spans the full spectrum of the profession including large-scale master planning, landscape urbanism, commemorative landscapes, integrated landscape and public art projects, detailed design and construction supervision. His past work includes civic and residential landscape architecture in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle, urban design projects in Malaysia and China, and water feature design and construction projects throughout North America.

Joseph is a member of the City of Richmond’s Advisory Design Panel, an active member of the BC Society of Landscape Architects, and a volunteer with the Japantown Commemoration Project in Vancouver’s Powell Street neighbourhood and Seafair Minor Hockey in Richmond.  He is the proud husband of his wife Louise and dad to his truly awesome kids, Daniel and Madeline.

Joseph can be reached at jfry@hapacobo.com.

Katherine Wimble, BCSLA Intern ASLA, is a landscape designer with Hapa. She brings a strong environmental design ethic to our practice along with an impressive pedigree in fine arts, painting and illustration. Working at the nexus between art and nature, Katherine brings a strong melding of fine art, graphic design, and natural sciences background to sensitive design for people in public space. She is a recent graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington where she gained a thoroughly fresh perspective on the current practice of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Urbanism.  

Katherine's email is kwimble@hapacobo.com.

Sarah Siegel, ASLA Associate received her Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in New York prior to completing her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto.  Following three years of experience with Michael Van Valkenburgh in New York, Sarah returned home to Vancouver to join Hapa as a landscape designer.  Sarah has a broad range of design skills, artful curiosity and technical expertise that makes her an invaluable member of our studio team.

Sarah's email is ssiegel@hapacobo.com.

Hanako Amaya, BCSLA brings nearly ten years of local, regional, and international field and design experience and a background in eco-environmental civil engineering and landscape architecture to the Hapa Collaborative team.  Her work spans scales and typologies, always striving to marry contemporary landscape design with sensitive analysis of physical and cultural context.   She completed her graduate degree in Eco-Environmental Civil Engineering from Ritsumeikan University, strengthened with a Masters of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia in 2005 and her full registration as a landscape architect in 2008.

Hanako's work at Japanese firms Studio On Site and Jun Itami Architects exposed her to the process and practice of contemporary Japanese architecture and landscape design.  She worked at Pechet and Robb Studio on Sweaterlodge - the winning architectural installation selected to represent Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale.  After working intermittently with Joseph over five years, she joined Hapa Collaborative in 2011 to continue the successful working relationship.

Hanako's email is hamaya@hapacobo.com.