Mike Stelfox is a Washington, DC landscape architect with a soft spot for resilient cities and a hard line on bad asphalt. After cutting his teeth at Loch Collective (four ASLA awards in three years), Oehme, van Sweden (stewarding design on the National Mall’s WWII Memorial), and !melk (Pier 97 on the Hudson), he launched Stelfox Design Studio in 2024 to design landscapes that pull double duty, and to see them built well: beautiful for the client, useful for the block.
His work has tackled coastal flooding in Virginia Beach, monsoon resilience in Mumbai (an internationally awarded competition entry), and a competition entry for a show garden in Seoul. He chairs the Technology Integration Subcommittee at ULI Washington’s Future Forum, holds licenses in DC, MD, VA, and NY, and is fluent in both the business and ecological cases for urban design that weaves cities back into their natural infrastructure.
