The Practice

Armstrong Bell landscape design is an award-winning landscape architecture practice founded in 1984 by Diana Armstrong Bell. Working internationally across a range of climate zones, the practice is known for distinctive, innovative designs that are site specific and sensitive to context.

Original, contemporary designs for urban parks and spaces have won six international design competitions and been finalists in a further three. The practice works collaboratively with associated design professionals focussing on urban landscapes, parks, master planning and the greening of cities.

Diana Armstrong Bell

Diana’s approach to landscape design is creative and original. She uses, hand drawing, collage and modelling, to develop design ideas. Defining the particular essence of a landscape is the starting point for each new project. Every place has its own story where landscape and people are intertwined. Designs are born out of the history and memories adding a new chapter to that story. The sculptural qualities of the natural landscape and the inspiration of artists, particularly Kazimir Malevich enrich the design process and have led to re-imagining the spatial arrangement of new landscapes.

Diana has designed and built projects in the UK, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria and Jordan. She has a considerable plant knowledge spanning temperate, Mediterranean and arid climate zones along with an understanding of the associated cultural context.

She lectures widely in the UK and Europe, taught Landscape Architecture at the University of Greenwich and The Inchbald School of Design whilst writing about landscape and place, and practicing art.

Diana completed an art foundation course followed by a diploma in Landscape Architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design. She is a chartered member of the Landscape Institute.