BAM是由丹尼尔·葛斯（Daniel Gass），雅各布·沃克（Jacob Walker）和艾莉森·戴利（Allison Dailey）创立的景观设计师、艺术家和建筑师的多学科团队。BAM的工作源于在公共领域创建装置。在其12年的历史中，BAM已发展成为中国领先的城市和景观设计公司之一，并在北京和上海设有办事处。

随着新技术和快速的城市化进程对环境的巨大影响，人们对自然在何处以及什么是自然的认识被缓慢地重新构想，并且变得越来越过时。随着我们与自然的关系发生变化，我们对城市和乡村环境的评价也随之改变。BAM相信，就像人造景观是一种文化人工制品一样，自然的定义也来自文化。人类对自然的不同定义和文化条件的定义反映在城市空间和城市的基础设施系统中。既然大多数人生活在城市环境中，大多数与人互动的景观都是被构造的，因此否认对景观的理解是一种人造的文化媒介贬低了它的内在力量。

BAM作为一种设计实践，通常着重于城市景观设计。在我们的定义中，城市景观是建筑物外的所有事物，而BAM则对两者之间的所有空间都感兴趣。边缘条件，边界和外围。BAM认为城市景观是城市的骨肉，相信在未来，景观应该是城市的真正标志而不是建筑物，从文化角度考虑，景观对于创造人们可以居住的地方至关重要。

BAM的发展固有着不断的变化和演变。尽管BAM始终专注于城市领域的景观空间，但BAM的“只是说是”策略已导致了极为多样化的弹道工作，这不符合传统的景观设计，城市设计，建筑或装置定义。随着BAM向前发展并继续以新的和不可预见的方式发展，我们坚定不移的立场是，景观是21世纪最重要的设计领域，这是我们信念的核心支柱。关于景观与美学，文化和环境之间的关系，景观介质内部及其周围的专业人士之间的永恒争论进一步阐明了BAM的神秘口号“自然就是一种观念”。

BAM is a multidisciplinary team of landscape architects, artists and architects founded by Daniel Gass, Jacob Walker and Allison Dailey. BAM’s work originated from the creation of installations in the public realm.  Over its 12-year history BAM has evolved to become one of China’s leading urban and landscape design firms with offices in Beijing, and Shanghai.  

As new technology and rapid urbanization drastically shape the environment, perceptions of where and what nature is, are slow to be reimagined and continue to become more outdated. As our relationship to nature changes so too does how we value our urban and rural surroundings. BAM believes that just as the constructed landscape is a cultural artifact, the definition of what nature is, lies in CULTURE. Humanity’s varied and culturally conditioned definitions of NATURE are reflected in the urban spaces and infrastructural systems of cities. Now that the majority of humans live in urban conditions, most of the landscapes which humans interact with are constructed, thus to deny the understanding of landscape as a constructed CULTURAL medium devalues its inherent power.

BAM as a design practice typically focuses on the design of urban landscapes. In our definition, The Urban Landscape is everything outside of the buildings and BAM is interest is in all of these spaces in between; the edge conditions, boundaries, and periphery. BAM sees urban landscape as the true material of the city and believes that in the future, landscapes rather than buildings should be the true icons of the city and that the culturally considered landscape is paramount in creating places where people can enjoy living.

Continuous change and evolution have been inherent in BAM’s development.  Although always focused on the landscape spaces of the urban realm BAM’s strategy of ‘just say yes’ has led to an extremely diverse, Ballistic body of work, which fits uncomfortably into traditional definitions of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture, or Installation. As BAM moves forward and continues to evolve in new and unforeseen ways, our unwavering stance that the landscape is the most important design realm of the 21st century forms a core pillar of our belief.  The perpetual debate within the professions in and around the medium of landscape regarding the relationship of landscape to aesthetics, culture, and the environment further illuminates BAM’s enigmatic slogan “Nature is an Idea.”