Barber is a Melbourne-based landscape design and architectural practice, founded by Sam Barber in 2002. Known for a measured and nuanced approach to both architecture and landscape, the studio pursues work that is quietly confident, rooted in care, and guided by clarity of purpose. With a multidisciplinary team, Barber seeks to connect people and place through considered environments shaped by balance, wellbeing and ease. Every project begins with listening—attentively to site, context and client. Through this process, Barber cultivates spaces that feel intuitive and natural, evolving through restraint rather than force. The practice is engaged across high end private residential, select multi-residential and public realm projects, working both independently and in collaboration with leading architects. Defined by a commitment to provenance, proportion and cohesion, Barber’s work reflects a seamless dialogue between architecture and landscape. Each commission is viewed as an opportunity to contribute meaningfully and with generosity to the lives of those who inhabit it.

Over time, Barber has refined an ethic based on virtues such as balance and thoughtfulness. Our work has become known for restraint, clarity, thoughtful expression, and a sensitivity to the landscape and local context. Our responses, drawn from complex sources, are distilled to deliver enduring simplicity. We create powerful sanctuaries for retreat, rehabilitation, renewal, restoration, interaction, congregation, connection, celebration. We are in the business of creative ideas and practical solutions to form and function, coordinating spaces for life enrichment. Uplifting places and spaces that make you feel good. At Barber we examine and absorb a variety of practices, their philosophies, their techniques, their core values. We take care to understand individuals, families and groups: how they live; what they seek; how they aspire to evolve. We study the aspirations of our people, institutions and communities committed to the improvement of mental and physical health; their processes, their fundamental purpose. We tailor environments that are supportive, authentic, inventive and modern. Life enriching and true to place.