JBLA is a landscape design practice focused on clarity, restraint, and a close reading of site. We look for the essential structure of a place—its light, topography, weather, movement, and patterns of use—and design from there.
Our process is iterative, analytical, and collaborative. We test ideas, refine them carefully, and work toward solutions that feel simple without being simplistic. The goal is not to add more, but to make the right things more visible.
We enjoy projects with strong constraints, curious clients, and room for discovery. Working closely with clients, consultants, builders, and other collaborators is central to how the work develops.
We aim to make landscapes that are precise, generous, and deeply responsive to site.
Jennifer Bloch
Jennifer is a California-licensed Landscape Architect (CA LA 5905) whose work is shaped by an interest in landscape, architecture, art, and the ways people inhabit space. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management, with minors in French and Art History, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also studied Architecture at California College of the Arts. While a student, she rehabilitated a ruin in Sicily and transformed the site into a garden—an early project that brought together her interests in landscape, architecture, history, and place.
Early in her career, she worked with Ron Herman on estate landscapes, Roberto Rovira on public art commissions, and Mitropoulos Architects on adaptive reuse housing. These experiences helped shape a practice that moves easily between landscape, architecture, art, and material detail.
Her landscapes have been featured on garden tours throughout Northern California and in print publications. Her writing was included in the 2016 European Cultural Centre exhibition TIME–SPACE–EXISTENCE, presented as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and she was an invited participant in Lausanne Jardins in 2009 and 2019.