Chris LaGuardia, FASLA is the founder and managing principal of LaGuardia Design Group, (LDG), a 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 has received numerous national, state, and regional design awards for its work and has been widely published, including The New York Times, AD, Elle Décor, and Landscape Architecture. LDG received the ASLA Award of Excellence in Residential Design, the highest award of its type. Their monograph Contemporary Gardens of the Hamptons: LaGuardia Design Group 1990-2020 features 21 of LDG’s residential works. Chris serves on the Board of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, and lectures widely about the importance of the landscape profession as it relates to climate.