Cameron McCarthy Landscape Architecture

FIRM

CAMERON MCCARTHY is a 26-member landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm with offices in Eugene, Portland, and Bend, OR. Our work includes a wide variety of projects for both private and public sector clients.

The firm’s roots can be traced back to a private practice formed in 1952 by Wallace “Mac” Ruff, a renowned landscape architecture professor at the University of Oregon. Over the past five decades, the firm has gone through a handful of carefully managed transitions. Today, the partnership is under the direction of Larry Gilbert, Matthew Scheibe, Matthew Koehler and Colin McArthur.

Our medium-sized firm, experienced personnel, and staff are instrumental to our repeated successes. As a 26-member office, we are small enough to maintain direct involvement of a partner on all of our projects, and large enough to provide our services in an efficient and timely manner with highly qualified personnel. Our proportion of registered professionals is remarkable for an Oregon firm of this size: 11 of our 26 members are licensed landscape architects (covering Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California) and 1 member is a licensed planner (AICP). The firm is a member of the USGBC (United States Green Building Council), 3 members are LEED Accredited Professionals, and 1 is a certified arborist (ISA).

SERVICES

Cameron McCarthy works in concert with other environmental design professionals to help people develop, preserve, and improve high quality relationships with their environments.  Members of the firm have all developed a keen appreciation for the natural and cultural systems in our project environments, and we are all committed to developing a sense of comfort, order, and aesthetic quality in the places we become involved with.  Nine of our members are registered landscape architects, one is a AICP planner, and one is a certified arborist.

We set high standards for sustainable site development in our work.  The firm is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, and several of our projects have been recognized with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum, Gold, Silver or certification. Three members of our firm are LEED accredited professionals.