ASSOCIATES

Jessica Clement's approach to design unites beauty and function with cultural and environmental responsibility. She is passionate about preservation, conservation, and restoration of natural, cultural and historic resources. She specializes in GIS mapping, which she see as an exceptional tool to visualize relationships and patterns in the natural and built environment and gain an intimate understanding of a place.

Jessica’s project experience includes planning, design and technical support at various scales for landscape conservation, natural infrastructure, transportation corridors, and learning places. She is currently a project team member for projects including the High Lonesome Ranch Conservation and Development Plan in De Beque, Colorado, Phase II of the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, Washington, and for Fota Wildlife Park Entry located in Cork County, Ireland. Prior to joining Jones & Jones, Jessica interned for EDSA.

Jessica has a Master of Landscape Architecture from Ball State University and a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and Landscape Design from Montana State University. She has a vested interest in sustainable design and the appropriate use of materials. As a graduate student, she researched environmentally preferable construction materials for the recently published book Materials for Sustainable Sites, and the article To PVC or not to PVC by Meg Calkins.

Garrett Devier draws upon 12 years of experience as an environmental educator, ranger, and trail builder in the North Cascades National Park, where he taught environmental education for the North Cascades Institute, patrolled as a Forest Service Wilderness Ranger, and led crews that built or maintained dozens of trails. His approach is to use design as pedagogy for making connections between people and their natural and cultural landscape.  His master thesis at the University of Washington focused on the design of an interpretive trail corridor for Fort Clatsop at Lewis and Clark National Historic Park in Oregon.  

Garrett’s work for Jones & Jones makes great use of his GIS mapping skills. He currently works in facilitation and planning for the Puget Sound Partnership, and in identifying signature landscapes as a basis for conservation strategy of Swauk Prairie in Central Washington. 

Josh Distler strives to create architecture which both draws strength from and adds life to the site it inhabits. With a BA in geology and classics from Amherst College, an MS in geology from the University of Montana, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Washington, Josh is interested in knitting the layers of meaning and texture in each place together with the people who will be living and working in it. His attention to sustainable design and the craft of building springs from his experience in construction and design-build projects in Mexico as well as in the United States. 

Josh is particularly interested in the application of green design to community architecture. His volunteer work has included a green roof demonstration in Oxbow Park in South Seattle, the making of gathering spaces in low-income Seattle neighborhoods, and in building straw bale housing for migrant workers in Central Washington.  

After recently serving as Project Designer for a cultural center and museum for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in south central Colorado, Josh is currently helping to shepherd the project through construction. 

Since joining Jones & Jones in 2005, he has been a team member for projects including Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center, Mount Baker View Park, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, Hanford Reach Visitors Center, Washington State Parks Green Vision Plan, and the Seattle Chinese Garden.  Prior to joining Jones & Jones, Josh was an associate architect in the Seattle office of Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson. 

Charlotte Essex believes in design for longevity and usefulness, especially when it comes to serving the needs of communities. She thrives on coming up with creative solutions for projects with limits. One of her first ideas was to take an old wood schoolhouse near her college—Norwich University in Vermont—and convert it into a community center and park for children. Her commitment led her to volunteer for Architects Without Borders, where she participated in the planning and design of an orphanage in Sri Lanka. Charlotte takes pride in carefully listening to the natural landscape and local communities while working to educate clients and project stakeholders on best practices and green building options. Since joining Jones & Jones in 2008, Charlotte has worked on the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, the Al Ain Desert Wildlife Park in the United Arab Emirates, and the Native American Cultural Center at Oregon State University.

With a background in ceramics and art history, Dottie Faris has always been fascinated with art as a cultural expression. Her approach focuses on the use of landscape architecture to express or reveal a cultural understanding of place, and how landscape architecture can be used to highlight the existing, but perhaps unappreciated or hidden, cultural and physical character of a site.  Key to this approach is her understanding of how design concepts are expressed across scales: from the small site details to the larger gestures of the site design.

Dottie’s project experience includes designs for large parks, small urban plazas, and zoological and wildlife parks.  She is currently a project team member for Northwest Native Canoe Center at Seattle’s South Lake Union Park and the Al Ain Wildlife Park in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to joining Jones & Jones in 2007, Dottie was a landscape designer for Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, where she worked on the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park.  Dottie has a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Lewis and Clark College. 

Jeremy Imhoff shares Jones & Jones’s devotion to landscape, and the ecological and cultural foundations of architecture.  He is dedicated to leading-edge “green” design strategies, setting an example of ways to minimize consumption of energy and other natural resources.  His interests and commitments largely stem from his undergraduate studies in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota, and his graduate education in architecture at the University of Washington, where he was involved with the Daylighting Lab in exploring methodologies for maximizing the use of solar energy.

Since joining Jones & Jones in 2005, Jeremy has been the project team member for projects including the Monterey Hotel-Chief Seattle Club Renovation in downtown Seattle, the Northwest Canoe Center in Seattle’s South Lake Union Park, and Snoqualmie Point Community Park within the Mountains to Sound Greenway.

Ints Luters has a decade of project experience encompassing natural resource conservation plans, river parkway master plans, regional design standards, regional park master plans, transportation corridor planning and design, park design and urban design. His ability to collaborate with a wide variety of interests, usually in a public forum, has been pivotal to the success of many such projects.

Int’s core focus is regenerative design.  He seeks to understand the natural systems and cultural contexts and the scales at which they form the whole for each project and its site.  This knowledge is used to develop integrated design solutions.  The resulting environments are characterized by a richness of natural and cultural forms and functions, deeper meaning, and lasting value.

At Jones & Jones, Ints’s work as a project landscape architect has included the Confluence Project Land Bridge in Vancouver, Washington, the redesign of U.S. 93 in Montana, and the Concept Plan for the revitalization of Wrangell, Alaska’s downtown.  Prior to joining Jones & Jones in 2000, Ints was with the firm of Withers, Sandgren & Smith in La Canada, California, where he first put the ideas of regenerative design into practice.  Ints has also held academic positions at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.

Wes Simmonds has a strong background as a landscape architect in planning, design, analysis and GIS technology.  Also a carpenter with 20 years experience as a fine furniture builder, he has a keen eye for details.  His talents range from large-scale planning to the fine details of construction.  These talents stand him in good stead for a diverse practice which focuses on land conservation, cultural centers, museums, zoos, and wildlife parks. 

Since joining Jones & Jones in 2004, Wes has worked with partners Grant Jones and Chris Overdorf to develop ILARIS—an award winning watershed-based GIS tool for analyzing and cataloging signature landscapes.  He has also worked on the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, Washington, the Southern Ute Cultural Center in Ignacio, Colorado, and the Vancouver Land Bridge in Vancouver, Washington.  In one of his favorite specialties, zoos and wildlife parks, he has worked on Africa Live at the San Antonio Zoo, and most recently on the Al Ain Wildlife Park in the United Arab Emirates.

Prior to joining Jones & Jones, Wes worked in regional planning at the Denver Regional Council of Governments, where he specialized in population and employment estimation, forecast modeling and GIS modeling.

Karen Davis Smith strives to create meaningful places of beauty through the union of landscape and architecture. Her main interests are in cultural and interpretive projects, especially those that benefit animals and the earth.

Karen spent the past few years at Boxwood as a project manager and designer, working on projects such as the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium and the PAWS Campus in Lynnwood, Washington. Her passion for sustainable and innovative design is evidenced by her involvement with the AIA Committee on the Environment, training with the Biomimicry Guild, and as a past organizer and cofounder of the Seattle-based Sustainability Salon roundtable group.

Karen joined Jones & Jones in 2008, and currently works on the Al Ain Desert Wildlife Park project in the United Arab Emirates.

Kari Stiles brings a strong background in biological sciences, project management, education and interpretation to her design and planning work at Jones & Jones. Since joining the firm in 2008, she has applied her previous professional experience to projects ranging from regional GIS-based analysis and graphic communication for the Puget Sound Partnership and the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail to site-scale planning, design and interpretation for historic Willamette Falls in Oregon City, Pacific Crest Montessori’s working farm on Maury Island, and a new eco-revelatory stormwater garden for the City of Snohomish.

Kari is passionate about designing places that are environmentally healthy and rich with ecological and cultural meaning. Prior to joining Jones & Jones, she worked as a research scientist studying plant growth responses to environmental conditions, completing her PhD in Botany in 2001. She went on to complete a Masters in Landscape Architecture with a focus on integrating ecologically and culturally-sensitive design. As an instructor of studio, lecture, and laboratory courses in the departments of Landscape Architecture and Biology at the University of Washington and the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, she developed her skills as an educator and interpreter, teaching diverse groups of design students to translate complex ecological concepts into effective designs that resonate with culturally-diverse audiences. Committed to cultivating strong connections between people and places, Kari also worked as the Neighborhood Park Program Director at the Seattle Parks Foundation, where she guided the development of the Foundation’s Neighborhood Parks Program, and assisted community groups in designing and developing neighborhood parks and green spaces.

With a 20-year tenure at Jones & Jones, Colleen Thorpe exemplifies the integrated environmental design approach of the firm’s core professional team. Practicing in both fields of architecture and landscape architecture, Colleen specializes in projects that express cultural identity and the intrinsic nature of landscape place. 

Colleen has project experience in sustainable site and building development, and has applied her knowledge in a range of geographical and regulatory conditions. Her work at Jones & Jones encompasses Native American cultural centers, zoos, and community design.  She has extensive experience with both urban and rural sites, and brings her broad, award-winning project experience to urban streetscapes, schools, parks, and lodges.