The designer
Brent Mowry
Pool design is not a category that forgives imprecision. A bad pool is expensive to live with and expensive to fix. The work has to be right before ground breaks.
Brent Mowry has been on pool job sites since he was a teenager, working for his father's pool construction business. By the time Brent took over the family business, he had worked every stage of the process — siting, excavation, construction, finishing — before design was ever his formal responsibility.
In addition to his construction experience, Brent also studied fine arts at the University of Texas, which shaped how he sees a site: as something with an existing character that a design either honors or fights. The work, as he describes it, is finding what a site already wants to be — then building it precisely.
That combination of formal design training and deep construction knowledge is uncommon in this industry. Most designers haven't run a crew. Most builders haven't spent years thinking about proportion, material, and line. Brent has done both — which means he can sit across from an architect or a general contractor as a peer, discuss structural constraints and site conditions as fluently as aesthetics, and hand off drawings that are actually buildable.
- Background
- Second-generation pool and landscape trade — grew up on job sites
- Education
- B.A. Fine Arts, University of Texas
- Based in
- Southern Georgia — available to work on projects in any state
- Engagements
- Architecture firms, landscape contractors, general contractors
How the work happens
Design that starts with the land, not a template
Site before concept
No project starts with a sketch. It starts with a visit. Grade, drainage, orientation, adjacency to structure, view corridors — these determine what's possible before preference enters the conversation.
One point of contact
You deal with Brent. Not a project manager, not an associate. The person who designed it is the person you call when something needs an answer.
Deliverables built to be used
Concept drawings are clear enough to present to a client. Permit sets are complete enough to submit. Construction documents are precise enough to build from without a phone call.
Recognition
- Award — [ to be confirmed with Brent ]
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