Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architects

Who we are:

TKLA is a landscape architecture studio based in Cape Town, South Africa. Our scope of works includes public, community, and private projects. TKLA creates site-specific landscapes that meet client briefs while simultaneously addressing social, spatial, and environmental concerns. TKLA leans into complexity and multiplicity to find forms and configurations that are resilient and generous. We celebrate context, choosing to build with materials salvaged from site and embrace community in making and building. The resulting interventions are deeply embedded in their environments and celebrated as daily spaces in the lives of their users. TKLA demands good city-making. We defend trees, advocate for cyclists, cheer for a woonerf and fight for stormwater. We push back against the tired ‘nice-to-have’ rhetoric and believe in landscape architecture as an indispensable tool for innovative spatial transformation. TKLA prides itself in being multitalented and multiscalar. It is our goal to make spaces that are a catalyst for joy, curiosity, contemplation, and care. TKLA believes that process is fundamental and worth celebrating. We also believe it is important to recognise the magnitude of work that precedes a project’s completion. For this reason we have tried to include construction photos of each built project. We are grateful to all those involved in this process and to the construction teams that have made these projects a reality.