Campbell & Campbell

Douglas and Regula Campbell have since the 1970’s been engaged in works of landscape and environmental architecture and public art, widely recognized for commitment to a collaborative process of discovery and collective expression of community, culture and encounter and reconciliation with nature.

Their work has been placed by art critic Christopher Knight at the intersection of “poetry and civic purpose”. This work has ranged from public projects noted for design processes involving large numbers of participants, through collaborations with individual sculptors, painters and poets, and constituencies of cultural, academic and research institutions, faith communities and environmental organizations, recognized as works of environmental healing and landscape art.

In 1968, The Campbells began a creative partnership that has continued to the present. In 1970 they were invited by the Experiments in Art and Technology organization to enter into a collaboration with sculptors Alan Kaprow and Newton Harrison, furthering a continuing interest in the landscape as perpetually the artifact and generator of process and performance. Douglas Campbell’s graduate studies in environmental design and landscape architecture at UC Berkeley were significantly influenced by sustainability pioneer, futurist and systems theorist Richard L. Meier.

Meier’s prescient approaches to planning and design in the developing world led the Campbells to Beirut in 1970, working throughout the Near East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa as consultants to UN sponsored economic and social development projects and related efforts involving resource conserving urban agriculture. The Campbells returned to California in 1974, where Regula entered graduate studies in architecture at UCLA, studying and working with mentor Architect Charles W. Moore.

Doug and Regula established Campbell & Campbell in 1981.