About RDA Landscape Architecture
RDA Landscape Architecture, PC is a principal-led Landscape Architecture practice based on Long Island, New York, providing planning, design, and implementation support for complex sites and meaningful places. For more than three decades, RDA has worked at the intersection of design excellence, technical rigor, and real-world delivery—helping clients navigate regulatory environments, shape memorable public realms, and transform land into functional, enduring landscapes.
Our work spans public and private projects across Long Island, New York City, and the Mid-Atlantic, including educational campuses, public-realm and civic spaces, parks and recreation facilities, multi-family and mixed-use developments, and bespoke private residences. Each project is approached with the same care: a deep understanding of site, context, and purpose, paired with disciplined documentation and follow-through.
A Principal-Led Approach
RDA is intentionally structured as a senior-staffed, hands-on practice. Projects are led directly by the firm’s principal, ensuring continuity of vision, accountability, and responsiveness from concept through construction.
This approach allows us to offer the personal attention and agility of a boutique studio, while bringing decades of experience delivering large, regulated, and technically demanding projects. Clients work with decision-makers—not layers of delegation—resulting in clearer communication, better coordination, and solutions grounded in practical reality.
Design Grounded in Place
We believe strong landscapes emerge from a careful reading of place—its landforms, ecology, climate, culture, and history. Whether shaping a coastal public space, a campus system, or a residential landscape, our designs respond to their context rather than impose upon it.
RDA’s work is informed by regional identity, environmental stewardship, and long-term durability. We integrate native and adaptive planting strategies, sustainable site practices, and resilient design principles to create landscapes that mature gracefully over time.
Technical Rigor, Real-World Solutions
Design vision alone is not enough. RDA is known for its regulatory fluency and implementation expertise, particularly within complex jurisdictions and environmentally sensitive areas.
Our services regularly include:
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Site planning and master planning
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Landscape design and construction documentation
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Zoning and regulatory coordination
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Environmental and buffer planting compliance
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Campus and public-realm systems planning
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Construction administration and field oversight
We collaborate closely with Architects, Engineers, planners, municipalities, and contractors to ensure that ideas are not only compelling—but approvable, buildable, and defensible.
Our Philosophy
At the core of our practice is a simple belief: Places matter. Spaces shape experience. Solutions require clarity, care, and commitment.
This philosophy guides every project, regardless of scale or type. We see Landscape Architecture not as decoration, but as essential infrastructure—one that supports community life, environmental health, and long-term value.