Ricardo Austrich, FASLA

Ricardo is registered landscape architecture with over 30 years’ experience. His practice spans parks, streetscapes, cemeteries, historic landscapes, public spaces, and site planning. His work is grounded in design excellence, with a particular focus on plant-centered and sustainable solutions that balance aesthetics, performance, and long-term stewardship.

Ricardo is also highly experienced in stakeholder engagement, working with community groups, municipal departments, clients, and review bodies throughout planning and design. His professional perspective is further informed by his academic experience teaching landscape architecture in Chile as a Fulbright Scholar and in Australia as a visiting lecturer.

As Director of Landscape Architecture for BSC Group’s Land Design & Development (LDD) service his role brings together landscape architecture, civil engineering and related technical expertise to guide development projects from early planning and permitting through site design, construction support, and project delivery. In other professional capacities Ricardo has sat on the Boston Zoning Commission since 2003.