General Info

About Our Team Confluence is a professional consulting firm comprised of landscape architects and planners, with offices located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa; Kansas City, Missouri; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Iowa City, Iowa. Each of the firm's principals has over 16 years of experience in the design and planning of complex projects and is active in civic and community affairs. Our firm's work includes a wide range of public, educational, institutional, and private sector projects. Our process is focused on collaboration and interaction with our clients, consultants and the community in which we work. Confluence has fourteen licensed landscape architects and carries licenses in Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, and Minnesota. Confluence brings the skills of landscape architecture, land planning and urban design to each project, giving us the tools to merge our client's needs with the environment. Our work is characterized by a philosophy of placing-making; creating unique, human connections with every project, its location, and its surrounding environment.