YOUR ABLA TEAM
A Culture Built on Collaboration
At ABLA, we bring everything we have to every project. It’s easy for us to be passionate about what we do because we believe in what we do. Our work is meaningful, and it impacts people’s lives—from the infrastructure of a masterplanned community to the layout of a playground. For us, there is no project too big or too small. This is what we live and breathe, and we are inspired by it all.
Meet your Team
With 20 years of passion and continued perseverance in the landscape architecture industry, Chris’ work includes the design and implementation of ecologically and socially inspiring spaces across a range of project sizes including top-selling master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, municipal parks, association parks, recreation trails, and streetscapes.
Chris is passionate about design solutions that are responsive to site constraints, drawing on his technical experience as well as communication with the project team to develop an impactful and lasting landscape project.
Chris’ personal drive and motivation makes it challenging for him to step away from his passion of landscape architecture. When he does get away, he enjoys an active lifestyle including spending time with his wife, playing with his rescued Stafford pup, attending concerts, mountain biking, hiking and vacationing in Summit County, Colorado.
Outside of work, Paula continues to practice her storytelling as the game master of several table-top roleplaying games, as well as miniature painting, watercolors, and a passion for 3d design and printing.
During his time off work, Daniel loves to create 3d environments and rendering animations. Most of the time he spends it with his loved one and his two cats, Leo and Lincoln. Other activities include going Go-Kart racing, biking, exploring trendy spots, discovering new coffee shops, long walks and traveling.
Culinary Arts, and Nutrition (Food and Nutrition Management). What seem like unrelated areas of
education, they hold one unifying factor, their combination of creativity and logic. She was a professor
of Nutritional Science at the Art Institute of Phoenix for several years before deciding to return once
again to the classroom as a student, this time pursuing a Master of Landscape Architecture from Arizona
State University, where she received multiple program awards. The decision to move to landscape
architecture came after discovering that there was a profession that combined her love of gardening
with her artistic design and creative passions. She firmly believes in the importance of one’s
environment – both interior and exterior and that each can, and should, be an extension of the other.
When not in the office, she enjoys traveling, working in her garden, playing with her 3 dogs, tending to
her 5 chickens, and spending quality time with her husband and 2 children.