Mark Lerch Landscape Architecture

Specialties

As a Florida licensed Landscape Architect, Mark is qualified to assist you with every step of your site design, including construction plans, choosing materials and site fixtures, and locating structures. He can also help you make your landscape more sustainable by recommending and designing plans for improving drainage or infiltration of runoff, evaluating existing irrigation or providing plans for a new irrigation design that can help conserve water, efficient energy conserving low voltage lighting design, and advise you in choosing the best pervious pavements for your walkways, patios or driveways.

. It is recommended that if you are considering hiring a landscape architect for new construction, you consult with one as early in the process as possible to maximize the integration between the natural ecology and the proposed built environment.

Meet the Business Owner

Mark L.

Business Owner

Mark Lerch, ISA Certified Arborist and Registered Landscape Architect, State of Florida

Mark grew up in the suburbs outside of Hartford Connecticut, home of Landscape Architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. In 2003, Mark graduated UMASS, Amherst with a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture and shortly after that, moved to Venice, Florida where he began working in Sarasota as a Landscape Architect. Over the last 8 years he has completed many site designs and worked with other design professionals, bringing a strong background in construction and ecology to create functional and environmentally compatible designs. While employed as a Planner II with Charlotte County for the previous 3 years Mark acquired knowledge that allowed him to become an International Society of Arboriculture, Certified Arborist; a Florida Registered Landscape Architect, and a Florida Freshwater Wetlands Master Naturalist.