Field Operations

Founded in 1999, James Corner Field Operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City. Serving an international clientele, the practice is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, from large urban districts and complex planning sites, to small, well-crafted, detail design projects. In all of the work, there is a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature. James Corner is the founder and director of Field Operations. With over 25 years of experience in the field, he directs all design projects in the office. Together with over 50 exceptionally talented design and planning professionals in the office, the practice sustains the highest levels of artistic creativity combined with professional responsiveness, building projects that are as imaginative and dynamic as they are responsive to client needs, communication, schedule, deadlines, cost feasibility and ease of implementation. The practice's project types include entire sectors of cities, waterfronts, post-industrial urban districts, intimate garden spaces, large public parks and urban spaces, housing and mixed-use developments, the reclamation of landfills, brownfields and other derelict landscapes for new public uses and private development and preservation of large-scale natural resources. Major projects include leading the design of the High Line in New York City, Race Street Pier in Philadelphia, Tongva Park in Santa Monica, the Master Plan and subsequent site design of Seattle's Central Waterfront, the Cornell Tech Campus in New York and the Presidio Master Plan and Parklands in San Francisco.