Capturing Essence: Virginia Burt Designs

Preface by Virginia Burt

Foreword by Charles A. Birnbaum

Introduction, project texts, captions by Douglas Curran (in collaboration with Virginia Burt)

Graphic design by DSGN DEPT, principal photography by Richard Mandelkorn and Jessica Crandlemire

The award-winning landscape architecture firm Virginia Burt Designs is widely celebrated for a diverse body of work—including landscapes and gardens for private individuals, therapeutic gardens for hospitals, estate master plans, and native landscape restoration, in both the United States and Canada—that is at once beautiful and profoundly meaningful. A holistic approach to design and realization serves as the foundation to each project, expressing respect for people and place while attending to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience of space.

Published upon the firm’s thirtieth anniversary, Capturing Essence features seventeen projects that collectively express the ethos of Virginia Burt Designs and encapsulate the broad nature of its work.

ORO Editions, 2026

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