David Seiter

Founding Principal

David Seiter is founding principal of Future Green Studio. His portfolio includes international, high-profile, large-scale urban parks and waterfronts, high-end residential garden and estate planning for celebrity clients, and green roof design and implementation. He manages a small working garden on a post-industrial site near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn which serves as a testing ground for Future Green’s more innovative research projects.

In addition to designing and building, David also teaches about emergent trends in landscape architecture. At the graduate program for Sustainable Planning & Development at Pratt Institute, David teaches a theory course on productive + performative landscapes and advises thesis students on independent environmental planning research projects. David has lectured widely about green roofs and living walls and has been a visiting design critic at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, and the University of Maryland amongst others. David’s writing has been featured on Urban Omnibus, and he is currently working on a book about strategies for transforming the urban landscape which highlights forward-thinking sustainable interventions.

Prior to gaining a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, David spent two years in Japan, where he apprenticed with a prominent garden designer in Kyoto.