Groundswell Landscape Architecture

Groundswell Landscape Architecture is a small Vancouver studio founded in July 2019 by Jennifer Stamp. She earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from UBC in 1997 and became a registered landscape architect with the BCSLA in 2001. She is also a member of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Before starting Groundswell, Stamp spent 21 years at Durante Kreuk Landscape Architects in Vancouver, including more than a decade as a partner. She was the design lead on the landscape for Vancouver’s Olympic Village and on Stuart Park in Kelowna.

The studio works on parks, schools, childcare centres, mixed-use developments, and multi-family residential sites. For a multiplex, that last category is the relevant one: site grading, tree retention, on-site stormwater, and planting plans are all part of the landscape package a permit usually requires.

Stamp has also served on civic design panels. She chaired the City of Vancouver Urban Design Panel in 2020 after sitting as a member in 2019, and earlier served on advisory design panels in Vancouver and New Westminster. That panel experience means she has reviewed how the city judges the kind of small-lot projects multiplex owners are building.