Luxury Pools & Landscape Architecture · Texas Hill Country The art of the outdoor environment.
Award-winning landscape architecture, luxury custom pools and outdoor living — designed and built by one team in the Texas Hill Country since 1987.
For 40 years, we’ve shaped how the Hill Country lives outdoors.
Dynamic Environments was founded 40 years ago right here in Texas on a simple conviction: the landscape architect who designs your property should be accountable for building it.
Our turnkey design/build practice brings every part of the exterior together — pools and spas, terraces and structures, planting, lighting and irrigation — under one team. It keeps quality high, the process simple, and costs under control. What is built matches the plan exactly.
Meet the studio- 1987
- 15+
- 2026
Pools and landscapes that belong to the land around them.
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“Nobody builds a pool better.”
One studio for the entire outdoor environment.
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Custom Pools & Spas
Vanishing edges, perimeter-overflow spas, beach entries and swim-up bars — engineered for the hillside and finished by hand.
- Vanishing edge & infinity pools
- Perimeter-overflow & wet-dam spas
- Beach entries, sun shelves & swim-up bars
- Natural & lagoon-style pools
- Geometric & contemporary pools
- Structural engineering
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Pool & Spa Remodeling
New life for an existing pool: updated finishes, better water features, new terraces and corrections to earlier construction.
- Pool & spa renovation
- New coping, tile & interior finishes
- Added spas, water & fire features
- New pool decks & terraces
- Lighting upgrades
- Corrections to earlier construction
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Landscape Architecture & Design
Master planning by our landscape architecture team — site plans, planting design and courtyards that belong to the land around them.
- Site analysis & master planning
- Planting design & garden spaces
- Front entries, courtyards & gardens
- Putting greens & sport courts
- Rainwater collection systems
- Landscape construction
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Hardscape & Retaining Walls
Hill Country sites are steep and rocky. We engineer the structure and build every wall, stair and terrace ourselves.
- Retaining walls & site work
- Structural engineering
- Flagstone & masonry staircases
- Pool terraces & seat walls
- Stone, brick & cast-in-place paving
- Turnkey design / build management
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Irrigation & Drainage
Water, managed. Irrigation designed around the planting plan, grading and drainage that protect the work, and rainwater collection.
- Irrigation design
- Grading & drainage systems
- Site drainage for terraces & walls
- Rainwater collection systems
- Water-wise planting zones
- Design coordinated with the master plan
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Landscape Lighting
Light for the hours you are actually home — safe steps and paths, glowing water, and trees and stone that stay beautiful after dark.
- Landscape & garden lighting
- Step, path & terrace lighting
- Pool & spa lighting
- Lighting for water & fire features
- Pergola & outdoor kitchen lighting
- Lighted sport courts
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Outdoor Kitchens & Living
Rooms without ceilings — pergolas, kitchens, cabanas and terraces designed for the way you actually entertain.
- Outdoor kitchens & bars
- Pergolas & cabanas
- Fireplaces, fire pits & linear fire features
- Entertaining terraces & seat walls
- Putting greens & sport courts
- Copper scuppers, runnels & fountains
From the first sketch to the final stone.
Every project begins as a master plan drawn by our landscape architecture team — and is built by the same team, to the same standard, without hand-offs.
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Listen & walk the land
Every project starts on site — reading the slope, the views, the sun and the way you want to live outdoors.
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Design the whole environment
Our landscape architecture team develops the master plan: pool, terraces, structures, planting, lighting and irrigation as one composition.
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Engineer it to last
Structural engineering, drainage and detailed construction documents make the ambitious parts — vanishing edges, tall walls — possible.
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Build it ourselves
The same team that drew it builds it, to the landscape architect’s standards. One point of contact, cost control and no hand-offs.
From the first design meeting with John, all the way to the day that Dynamic Environments turned over the ‘keys’ to our new pool and backyard, working with them has been a pleasure. The entire DE team are focused on excellence, quality, and creating a great customer experience. We are so happy that we chose Dynamic Environments to build our dream backyard!
John Hackett
With more than forty years in landscape architecture and construction, John founded Dynamic Environments and set the design/build standard the studio still works to today.
A 1987 graduate of Texas A&M’s landscape architecture program, John also studied architectural design theory, structural design and construction at the College of Architecture, and the classical gardens of Italy from Rome to Venice through the university’s program in Florence.
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