Based in San Francisco, Jeffrey Miller is the founder of Miller Company Landscape Architects, a landscape architect and landscape contractor with forty-five years of experience designing and building sustainable spaces. Committed to the idea that landscape architecture is a powerful vehicle for addressing community needs, Miller has spent much of his career working with neighborhood groups, schools, and non-profit organizations, designing landscapes that enhance and support the social context in ways that strengthen the potential for delightful and open community interaction. The incorporation of site-specific, repurposed industrial artifacts into public and private spaces are featured in many of his works. His designs for community projects feature native, edible, and recreational gardens in formerly abandoned urban spaces, public parks, and schoolyards. Miller has collaborated with artists to create structures and landscapes for health care facilities, art centers, libraries, and multi-family developments serving seniors, families, students, and formerly homeless individuals; he has also provided design solutions for private gardens, including the Mission district home of the poet Robert Duncan and artist Jess.
His work has received national awards and is published in books including Water Landscapes (Fujian Science and Technology Press, 2013); Designing the Sustainable Site (John Wiley & Sons 2012); The Sustainable Sites Handbook (John Wiley & Sons 2012); Sustainable Landscape Construction (Island Press, 2000); Designed Landscape Forum, vol. 1 (Spacemaker Press, 1998); and Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
