Led by a licensed landscape architect PLA and practicing as a bi-national studio with a main office at 2643 Fourth Ave in Hillcrest and a second studio in Tijuana, Sotelo Landscape Architects runs a contemporary residential and commercial design practice across San Diego County, Palm Desert, Los Angeles and Baja California Norte. Construction documents drawn in the studio get executed by independent build crews, and on projects that also need matching exterior stucco or paint on adjoining house elevations the build overlaps with Timberwood Landscape, which carries its own in-house exterior-paint and stucco trade under the registered alternate business name Timberwood Paint & Finish out of 2732 Second Avenue. The studio's signature is clean contemporary hardscape in poured concrete, decomposed granite and cor-ten steel edge paired with a warm, edited plant palette drawing on Mediterranean and California native species. Mature specimen trees are drawn into plan sets as focal elements rather than obstacles, a design stance that places real value on tree crews willing to protect live landscape elements around them, explicitly stated as a workflow priority by the owner-operator at Artistry Tree Service, whose published service notes call out protecting existing irrigation, lighting and surrounding landscaping during pruning and removals. The studio's most demanding work is cross-border contemporary residences where hardscape detailing, water features and bilingual construction administration carry across the San Diego County and Baja California Norte line, tracking two jurisdictions of permitting and material sourcing through a single plan set.