Meet the Team

Terra Firma Landscape Architecture has been established in Portsmouth, NH and serving New Hampshire, Maine, and southern New England since 1993.

A smiling middle-aged man wearing glasses and a light gray shirt, standing in front of a wall covered with various landscape photographs.

  • Principal

    Professional Experience

    Principal, Terra Firma Landscape Architecture
    Portsmouth, NH 1993–Present

    Landscape Architect and Project Manager, CR3, Inc.
    Simsbury, CT 1988–1991

    Artist in Residence, Cortona, Italy 1990

    Adjunct Professor, Paier College of Art
    Hamden, CT 1989

    Education and Recognition

    Citizen of the Year, Portsmouth, NH, 2018

    Sculpture Prize, CT Academy of Fine Arts, 1991

    Licensed Landscape Architect, 1986

    Master of Landscape Architecture,
    University of Georgia, 1984

    Studied Temple Gardens in Japan, 1982

    Rhode Island Nurserymen’s Award
    for Plant Identification, 1979

  • Landscape Architect


    Professional Experience

    Landscape Architect
    Terra Firma Landscape Architecture
    Portsmouth, NH 2011–Present

    Gardener/Assistant Landscape Designer
    Beth Arndsten Landscape Designs
    Weston, MA 2010–2011

    Plant Care Technician
    Plantscape Technologies
    Townsend, MA 2009

    Education and Recognition

    Licensed Landscape Architect, 2014

    Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Magna Cum Laude
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2011

    Dean's List
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2008-Spring 2011
    University of Connecticut, Fall 2007

    ASLA Honor Award
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011

    Thomas B. + Lorraine K. LeNoir Award
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009

    Vice President of Communications
    UMass Amherst Student Chapter ASLA
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010–2011