Landscape Architect - Irvine, California
Isn't a landscape architect just an expensive gardener?
Not even close.
Thomas G. Dobos draws the land before anyone builds on it. A licensed landscape architect designing high-end home resorts across Orange County for over 40 years.
The difference
Gardener, landscaper, architect.
Three different trades, three different jobs. Here is where each one belongs.
Gardeners & landscapers
Planting, lawns, pruning, and upkeep. Essential trades that keep a finished garden alive and beautiful. They build and tend what someone else designed.
A licensed landscape architect
Grading, drainage, hardscape, and planting, drawn as one engineered plan. Permits, HOA submittals, and construction drawings a contractor can build from. Design first, shovels second.
Specialties
The plan, in legend.
Difficult hillside lots
Steep, awkward slopes are the specialty. Grading, walls, steps, and terraces drawn to work with the hill instead of fighting it.
Home resorts & spa retreats
Outdoor living designed like a resort: pools, spas, and quiet corners for high-end homes, modern or traditional.
HOA & agency approvals
The sometimes complicated approval processes, navigated for you with thoroughly detailed submittal plans.
Advanced 3D visualization
See the design in three dimensions before a single shovel hits the dirt. Meticulous attention to detail, on screen first.
The record
Licensed, degreed, decades in.
How it works
From first walk to final plan.
Walk the land
Tom walks your lot and studies the slope, the sun, the architecture, and what the HOA will allow.
Draw the plan
A complete design with advanced 3D visualization, so you see the resort before it is built.
Clear the approvals
HOA and agency submittals prepared and navigated with thoroughly detailed drawings.
Build-ready drawings
Final construction plans your contractor can price and build from, down to the last detail.
Good to know
Asked often.
A landscape architect designs the whole site as an engineered plan: grading, drainage, hardscape, and planting, plus permits and construction drawings. A landscaper builds and maintains. For a major project, the architect's plan comes first.
Yes. Navigating HOA and agency approval processes is a core part of the practice, handled with detailed submittal plans.
Your design rendered in three dimensions before anything is built, so you can see the finished resort from every angle and refine it on screen.
The practice focuses on new custom homes and major exterior renovations, especially high-end properties and difficult hillside lots. If that describes your project, call to discuss it.
Call or text (949) 874-7141, or email info@tdlandscapearchitect.com with a brief description of your project. Tom will tell you honestly whether it is a fit.
Custom homes & major renovations · Irvine, CA
Draw it before
you build it.
(949) 874-7141
Thomas G. Dobos, Landscape Architect · CA Lic. #4040 · info@tdlandscapearchitect.com