La Casona Garden- A multidisciplinary mother-(twin)daughters landscape design studio situated as a South Florida botanic garden/research/ studio/ kitchen/live plant- library/HOME.
A full -scale practice of landscape Design-n-Plant/build, alongside our companion species .
Non-hierarchical gardening/planting/kraft/building/ research and teaching, dedicated to creating generative landscapes : a deep regard and dedication to planting South Florida native plants, pollinator gardens and tropical dreamscapes .
Psyche-delic, multidimensional, trans- disciplinary- sensual. Reimagining our interconnectedness through multiple perspectives, traces, memories and practices.
Earth-Vanguardia: Designs are carefully elaborated in collaboration with plants, fauna, stones, beings, people, places, crafts, terrestrial companion species/inhabitants. A restorative ecological practice; plant alchemy . A botanic poetics of place making and ethics of care.
We plant the gardens we design. We craft the spaces we imagine. Our ethos is deep ,immersive ,ecological . Gardening making as a resource that is shareable. Our practice - a portal to open new possibilities and colleagues for South Florida Native gardens . A community to come.
Plant anamnesis : to the plants themselves! The research-embodied ethos of our work, the plasticity of our practice alongside the diverse trajectory of our ancestral- life-destiny , in synchronicity with various disciplines calls us to sense, imagine, design, plant pollinator South Florida gardens ( and other places: Bahamas, Brazil, Mexico , Guatemala, Colombia, South of France) for wonder and play.
Plant matter: We are where we inhabit. Our Multidimensional - multi- cultural -multi- generational knowledge of ecology, garderning, architecture, horticulture, foods, philosophy, medicinal plants, art/s , ethics, and our resourceful collaborations with plant and tree growers, landscapers, stone masons, arborists, architects , lighting designers, artists, plant collectors, field biologists , carpenters, philosophers , ceramicists, soils specialist, inform the deep craft of our practice and botanic intuition.
The ethics of care is a devotion to our practice.
Pachamama: We dedicate our gardens to our clients , to our companions species and To Mother.
In reverance and awe.
“ We all come from mother” Mary C . Rawlinson

Who We Are

DESIGN

Aida+Miron.jpg — **AIDA MIRON**
Architecture- Landscape + Urbanist-Artist
Aida Miron is an educator and designer and is the co-founder and partner of the landscape design studio: *La Casona Garden Design* based in Miami. Her work is grounded in the fields of architecture, landscape design, urbanism and the fine arts. It explores notions of public space, sustainability and ecology. Aida teaches architecture at Pratt Institute and has taught architecture at *the Cooper Union School of Architecture*. She has lead workshops and been a guest critic at a number of architecture schools and institutions in the US and Europe.
Aida was a lighting designer with the Specialist team at Buro Happold in NYC, among her collaborations are the upcoming MIT Music building with SANAA, the Quinnipiac University in Hamden with DLab, the Boeing Aerospace Center in Boston with Stantec, the Branson Estate in Mosquito Island, BVI with DSK Studio and Dia’s Broken Kilometer in NYC. She was a project designer at T.Kondos Associates, leading lighting design projects in Latin America, among them the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum in Costa Rica and the Miraflores Archeological Museum in Guatemala City. Recently she collaborated with the Dumbo experimental studio the Seed, as lighting design lead.
EDUCATION
Bachelors of Architecture – The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Master of Architecture – Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSAB/UPC
Post-Graduate Degree in Urban Studies – Bauhaus Kolleg Dessau
MFA – Norwegian Technical University of Trondheim/KiT
Visiting Graduate Student – Tromsø Academy of Landscape Architecture & Territorial Studies, the Oslo School of Architecture, AHO-Arctic University of Tromsø

**ANA MIRON**
GARDEN ECOLOGY/SORCERER
Ana Miron’s garden making practice is inscribed by her love of South Florida habitats and decades of interdisciplinary research in the fields of literature, ecology, philosophy and ethics- She transitioned from her scholarly work (M. Phil) on ecological imagination, plant magic and de-colonial vanguardia (Advisor : Eduardo Subirats. *On Scape, Sketches of the Psyche in Jose Maria Arguedas Rios Profundos,* *An Ethics of Care: De-colonial Plant Magic, Eros y Diosas*) to an immersive garden design practice, creating sensual botanic portals that connect us to the web of life . Her process of garden making- plasticity, collaboration, improvisation,rhyzomal ,transtemporal-interspecial- deconstructs hierarchies across disciplines and opens the psyche to wonder alongside our companion species. To make a garden as welcome/friendship.

La Casona Garden In-situ-garden Making +

LANDSCAPE :

Abraham Landscape + Arborist Sean Nutter

Stone Works: Stone Mason Sean Nutter @ Rockyard Miami

Carpentry Woodworks: BrianBoothYouthBoatWorks