Chris LaGuardia

Chris LaGuardia, FASLA is the managing principal and founder of the LaGuardia Design Group, (LDG) located in Water Mill NY, with additional offices in Manhattan and Florida. The LaGuardia Design Group is a 25-person landscape architecture firm specializing in residential, commercial, and institutional design. They have projects across the United States as well as around the globe. The firm has collaborated with many esteemed architecture and design firms including Adjaye Associates, Bates Maasi, Cutler Anderson, Gluckman Tang, Norman Jaffee, REX and Maya Lin Studio. LDG’s creative collaboration with clients and architects expresses the best character of each site.
LaGuardia Design has received numerous national, state, and regional design awards for its work and has been published in many periodicals, including The New York Times, AD, Elle Décor, and Landscape Architecture. In 2013, LDG received the ASLA Award of Excellence in Residential Design, the highest award of its type. The firm published their monograph Contemporary Gardens of the Hamptons: LaGuardia Design Group 1990-2020, featuring 21 of LDG’s residential works. Chris serves on the Board of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. He lectures widely at universities, museums and ASLA conferences about the importance of the landscape profession as it relates to climate change. This lecture for the Dallas Architecture Forum was presented on May 11, 2023. Please support The Forum, a non-profit organization, at dallasarchitec... so we can continue to present lectures and events featuring design thought leaders that educate, connect communities, and enhance how we live.