Marissa Angell

Marissa is an award-winning licensed landscape architect in New York and Connecticut with over a decade of experience in Landscape Architecture. She holds a masters degree in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences from Cornell University. Her work and writing has been featured in Fine Gardening, RealSimple, Gardenista, Better Homes and Gardens, and Gardens Illustrated.

Education is an important part of our practice, and when she is not designing, Marissa serves as an adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University and the Pratt Institute. She has taught introductory landscape design courses at Harvard's GSD, New York Botanical Garden, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and has been featured as a guest lecturer at the Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium.

Over the course of her career she has collaborated with and/or worked for landscape firms such as Miranda Brooks Landscape Design, Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, Practice Landscape, Rock Design Associates,  and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

Mary Gould

Mary has recently embarked on a career shift to landscape design after studying design and horticulture at New York Botanical Gardens. With a diverse background in the art and museum world, she blends her love for artistry and curation with a deep reverence for the natural world. Mary has previously worked for Damien Hirst, Yto Barrada, the Whitney Museum and 1stdibs.

Collaborators

Carson Booth, MLA
Andrew Boyd, MLA
Sienna Ng
We believe in the transformative power of landscapes and the plants and wildlife that inhabit them. 
Angell Landscape Architecture, PLLC is a landscape architecture firm that was founded by Marissa Angell, PLA in 2021 with horticultural sensitivity and ecological landscape stewardship at its core. We are a small team of designers, landscape architects, and plants people who exercise rigor in our attention to materiality and form. 

Our style is mutable.
Each project is unique and our approach is determined based on the programmatic needs, context, and aesthetic requirements of the site and user.

Our partners are dedicated and diverse.
We work with an array of residential, commercial, and public clients to create emotionally engaging landscape spaces that resonate with its inhabitants.