Founded by Alma Miron, 

La Casona Garden, is A multidisciplinary mother-(twin)daughters landscape design atelier situated as a South Florida (sub) tropical botanic garden/research/ studio/ kitchen/live plant- library/HOME.

A full -scale practice of landscape design /garden-planting-making, research and teaching, dedicated to creating generative landcapes in intimate proximity to natural habitats : a deep regard and dedication to planting South Florida native plants (and other places we are called ) - to create a sense of place for co-existence with our companion species; 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, 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. Meticulous landscape design+ rigorous architectural literacy , alongside the plasticity of artistic improvisation .

Plant anamnesis : to the plants themselves! The research 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 design, imagine, draw, create and plant pollinator gardens in South Florida and myriads of places 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, art/s , ethics, and our resourceful collaborations with plant and tree growers, arborists, landscapers, plant collectors, field biologists, architects, stone masons, , carpenters, soils specialist, artists, lighting designers, inform the deep craft of our practice and botanic intuition.

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

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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

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ALMA MIRON

Garden Designer, Paisajista, Horticulturist

Alma Miron has been making-gardens for over 6 decades. She has grown plants since the age of 3. She and her mother Julia, a professional cook and gardener , grew flowers , vegetables and herbs to sell to her neighbors and for cooking in their kitchen. Alma wondered through the cloud forest of her native Coban Alta Verapaz, Guatemala - walking for days in the forest , observing and being immersed in the cloud forest habitat. Informed by the traditional Q’eqchi worldview, she learned the sacred and medicinal quality of plants, for ritual and everyday sustenance. She gardened with her mother daily, harvested wild herbs, build kitchena and everyday objects by hands, and tended the bounty from her organic garden . Her rapport with plants is inscribed in everyday existence. La Casona Garden “commenced”as a small nursery in her 1920’s barn house in Homestead-Miami-Dade, growing beloved plants for her garden creations. She was joined by her twin daughters to open a creative portal and botanic becoming.

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GARDEN ECOLOGY

 La Casona Garden In-situ-garden Making +

LANDSCAPE :

Abraham Landscape + Arborist Sean Nutter

  • Stone Works: Stone Mason Sean Nutter @ Rockyard Miami

Carpentry Woodworks: BrianBoothYouthBoatWorks

La Casona Garden + Abraham Landscape+ Arborist Sean Nutter

Arborist Sean Nutter+ La Casona Garden+ Abrahama Landscape

Abraham Lanscape & La Casona Garden

La Casona Garde& Abraham Lanscape

Abraham Landscape & Rockyard Miami

Marina@ Native Tree Nursery & La Casona Garden Plant selection

Landscape Architecture Jaimundo Galapa

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