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About us

Siteform (Inc.) is a site design and landscape architecture firm offering complete landscape architectural services. Our success is defined by our clients’ aspirations and by valuing design as a process. We focus on understanding the technical components of urban and natural landscapes to create, conserve, and regenerate places for people.

We offer extensive and diverse experience in the realms of landscape architecture, urban design, active recreation, universal design, and crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). Our projects are customized to deliver design excellence, function, and aesthetics and to assist with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics as they pertain to site design.

Our main office is in Ottawa, Canada, with allied networks in Toronto and Halifax. Our depth of experience includes site and landscape design for some of Canada’s largest Alternative Project Delivery Models (APDM), parks, trails, streetscapes, and private developments. Today’s leading 3-D design and visualization software is embedded into everything we do.

Our leadership is recognized for their community and professional contributions at municipal, provincial, and national levels. Awards include recognition by the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the City of Ottawa Urban Design Awards Committee, and the Canadian Urban Institute.

Leadership: Jonathan Loschmann, OALA, CSLA, LEEDAP, is the founder and principal of Siteform. A Landscape Architect and LEED Accredited Professional with more than two decades of experience, Jon embraces the power of creativity, collaboration, and smart work. A graduate of the University of Guelph (BLA, 2002), he is focused on improving our global environment and has won numerous awards for projects across Eastern Canada and the National Capital Region. Jon grew up in Ottawa, and following his university studies and internship at the National Capital Commission (NCC), he moved to Boston to start his career in landscape architecture. Jon’s work landed him in New York, Scottsdale, and Los Angeles before establishing Ottawa as his home in 2009. Prior to founding Siteform, Jon was Director of Eastern Canada Operations at WSP. Jon is a proud husband, son, brother, and father of two wonderful kids.

  • Jonathan Loschmann

    Jonathan Loschmann

    Jonathan (Jon) is PRINCIPAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT at Siteform with twenty-one (21) years of professional experience. He is recognized for his work with multiple awards from national, provincial and municipal organizations for delivering simplicity-by-design in complex environments. His work addresses our innate tendency to affiliate with nature as a form of human wellness and focuses on long-term cost-benefit and sustainability. Jon recognizes that emotional response to landscape is a function of good site design and city building.

    Jonathan.Loschmann@siteform.ca

    613-796-4537

Creating landscapes that matter.

 

Form follows function (right?!)

The function of a site should precede its form. Where function follows form—heck, that’s art. Landscape architecture offers the highest cost-benefit ratio of all construction divisions.

Question the ordinary.

Throughout the entirety of our work, we question our own assumptions - to deliver exceptional projects with strong cost-benefit ratios that stand the test of time.

Building is the noblest of all arts.

Building requires action, know-how, and consistency. We are here to roll up our sleeves for you and your project. Thanks to Henry Longfellow for inspiring us with this noble idea.

 

Good design is invisible.

Good site design is intuitive and ‘invisible’. Thanks to Bruce Mau, we challenge ourselves with this idea every day.

Technology and nature

Healthy cities rely on the multi-disciplinary integration of technology and nature. Biophilic concepts and the use of 3-D and 4-D (time) design are embedded in everything we do.

Art and science.

Landscape architecture is an art and science functioning between the dominions of engineering, architecture, and design. Credit to Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity.

 

Inspiration abounds—abstract, conceptual, and literal. A symbol of emergence and environmental renewal, the beaver is a high-impact animal. Their presence creates biodiversity and habitat by establishing and maintaining wetlands and natural stormwater control. We gain inspiration from this concept and allow it to inform our conceptual design thinking. This logo was created for Siteform in celebration of its founding by graphic artist Harun Sinanbasic.