Leah Broder

Senior Associate

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For nearly two decades, Leah has designed beautiful, resilient open spaces for people of all walks of life. Leah views each project as an opportunity to use the palette of the landscape — plants, landform, hardscape — to create inviting spaces and provide elegant solutions to complex challenges. Recognized for her ease with clients and collaborators, Leah truly enjoys creative problem-solving during project design and construction. She has a thirst for culture and is adept at working in multicultural environments, having herself lived and practiced landscape architecture on the East and West Coasts, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. Leah’s built projects have received numerous awards including two ASLA awards and three SCUP awards. Awarded projects include a public promenade in China, a civic park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a suite of projects at Duke University in North Carolina.

 

Leah grew up in California, and from an early age displayed a creative streak, making drawings and sculptures throughout her childhood and eventually graduating from California College of the Arts. Her early professional experience in installation art organically evolved into a quest to improve the built world in a meaningful way, which led to a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

 

In her spare time, Leah complements her design practice by teaching yoga, helping students to cultivate their inner landscape, bringing harmony to the body, mind, and heart. She is an active member of her local community in Arlington, Massachusetts advocating for high quality open space and serving as Town Meeting Member.