David Seiter

David Seiter is founding principal of Future Green Studio, an innovative landscape design and urban ecology firm based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. With a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, David’s portfolio includes private and public-use projects ranging in scope from intimate residential spaces to larger developments as well as city-wide research and visioning. As the leader of a twenty-person design-build studio, David explores the complex ecology of our cities revealing the nuances of the urban landscape in subtle, poetic ways. With keen attention to sustainability, David is continually exploring and incorporating innovative methods for aesthetically stimulating, practical, socially and environmentally responsible design. Seiter has lectured widely about emergent trends in landscape design. At the graduate program for Sustainable Planning and Development at Pratt Institute, he teaches a theory course on productive and performative landscapes and advises thesis students on environmental planning research projects. David is currently working on a book about site-specific, sustainable strategies for transforming the urban landscape.