OUR STORY

Urban Landscape Studio, is a small landscape architecture firm located in Saratoga Springs, New York.  Our founder and principal, Erin Maciel, RLA has over 13 years’ experience as a landscape architect on public infrastructure, transportation, parkland and residential projects and is proficient in leading multidisciplinary design teams, environmental permitting, construction documents, construction inspection and details. Ms. Maciel’s strengths include generating strategic project implementation strategies for a variety of public clients based on their
needs and funding capabilities. Ms.  Maciel excels at complex project management for projects over $10M, is proficient with client interaction,  government communications and  reaching community and stakeholder consensus on politically sensitive projects. Erin has also been successful at obtaining national, state and local  funding grants for community-driven projects and presenting vision documents to potential funding partners. She is passionate about  ecological design at all scales and is an expert at growing trees and plants in  difficult urban areas. She is detailed-oriented and finds creative solutions for all of her projects. Erin currently serves on the Complete Streets Board for the City of Saratoga Springs, New York. She is a registered Landscape Architect in New York (Lic. # 002410-1).