ZEN Associates

We understand that the unique role of the landscape architect is to design in detail the client's program which often includes landscape structures, ornamental plantings, fine crafted masonry and the artistic details unique to each client. We work closely with clients and their architects and builders to explore options, share ideas, and develop creative design solutions for the interior and exterior spaces in which we live. Our clients include residential homeowners, architects, builders, corporations, hospitals, educational institutions, botanical gardens, and public municipalities.

ZEN Associates, Inc. is a landscape design and build firm providing landscape architecture, landscape design, interior design, and construction services, since 1980. We have offices in the Boston and Washington DC metro areas with a staff of over 60 people passionate about what we do. We work with clients to explore options, share ideas, and develop creative designs for the indoor and outdoor spaces where they live. We have one mission which has never changed: To translate a client's dream into a memorable, personal, and enduring environment for living.

We are Landscape Architects with backgrounds in design, engineering, horticulture, construction, and art. We design all things outdoors, and some things indoors. We work with clients who are looking for creative professionals to bring their visions and dreams to life in residential properties, urban parks, rooftop terraces, botanical gardens, water gardens, and more. We often work together with other design professionals in order to deliver a design that meets or exceeds our client's vision in every way.

We believe that proper maintenance is essential for the success of any built landscape - large or small, and no one knows more about keeping that beauty in balance than ZEN Associates. Our full-service landscape maintenance team will work with you to develop a program designed to keep your property looking its best all year long. In response to growing demand, ZEN Associates recently launched The Gardisans, a boutique service that provides expert garden care and maintenance, for clients who require regular weekly or biweekly servicing all year long.

At ZEN Associates, we integrate form and function to create interior spaces that are at once memorable and livable. Beautiful and practical. Natural and cutting edge. We provide specialized services for contemporary Japanese Architecture and Interior Design. Our interior design projects range from residential homes and corporate offices to restaurants and private function rooms - and we're ready to breathe new life into your interior space. In addition to projects throughout New England, our unique approach to interior design has earned us on-location projects in Florida, North Carolina, New York, Colorado, and, even, Spain.

Our landscape construction department is a team of dedicated project managers, estimators, masons, horticulturists, and landscapers who are professionally trained and equipped to undertake residential and commercial landscape construction projects of all sizes and complexities. Because we are a landscape design and build firm with creative, as well as, technical expertise, we are uniquely positioned to address every aspect of the most demanding projects. We never lose focus of our mission to build intelligently and collaboratively with a focus on detail, schedule, process, and budget.