Eastern Ontario Landscape Architects
We help you bring the natural environment into your urban space to create a beautiful, sustainable landscape. We share your desire for an inspiring healthy living environment that fosters harmony between nature, culture, and the built environment.
Our experienced team is ready to guide you through this process from design to reality.
We value collaboration – this is your project: we are here to help you bring it to life.
Our Team
Marietta Ruhland
Principal of Ruhland & Associates Ltd.
Marietta is an advocate for bringing nature close to home, whether it’s through a portion of a school lot dedicated to outdoor classrooms, viable tree plantings, or preserving and enhancing existing natural environments.
Inspired by childhood summers camping in Algonquin, Marietta brings her passion for the wilderness together with her love of math, science, and art to create beautiful, sustainable designs.
Victor Odusanya
Landscape Designer – Junior Project Manager
Victor is a graduate from the Environmental Design program at the University of Manitoba, majoring in Landscape Architecture. He is passionate about the urban realm, and how sustainability can be a constant without compromising design and practicality.
Naaz Warsi
Landscape Designer
Naaz is an architectural professional with a Bachelor of Architecture and graduate certificates in Urban Design and Planning. With experience in parks, commercial, residential, and landscape projects, as well as urban planning and research, she brings a multidisciplinary approach to design. Her work involves design development, site coordination, and visualizations. She is passionate about creating functional, sustainable, and thoughtfully designed spaces that enhance communities and everyday experiences.
Freya Xiao
Landscape Designer
Freya graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies, majoring in design. She is energetic and passionate about designing beautiful and sustainable urban spaces for Ottawa to enjoy, and devoted to creating spaces that make people happy. She also loves graphic design and history.
Tess Frost
Landscape Architectural Technologist
Tess is passionate about sustainable practices, and design that enhances our environment by contributing to our health and wellbeing. Tess is a trained and experienced draftsperson and technologist. She also holds a diploma in fine art and has training and experience in a variety of fields.
Tashfiya Hamid
Office Administration
With her background in accounting and business, Tashfiya works in the company administration and enjoys working in a collaborative team environment.
Neil Kempster
Site Inspector
Neil is retired from the landscape industry and brings his knowledge to inspecting tree plantings and landscape installations. Neil also has a great passion and talent for realism and fantasy paintings, which have been shown in galleries in Ottawa and Grenville Leeds.