Edmund Hollander is president of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, the only landscape architecture firm elected to Architectural Digest’s AD100 Designers List, given an ICAA Arthur Ross Award, and honored with multiple national awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
Edmund Hollander is an elected Fellow of the ASLA, one of the society’s highest honors. He serves on the Dean’s Council and the Advisory Board of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is on the Board of Trustees for the New York Restoration Project, the nonprofit founded by Bette Midler with a mission to create beautiful, high-quality public space for all New Yorkers. Edmund is on the Advisory Board for the Landscape Architecture program at City College of the City University of New York and has lectured at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Botanical Garden, and other design-focused institutions. His contributions as a board member of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art include support of the institution’s growing landscape architecture curriculum. He is Past President of the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). In 2023, Edmund was commended as the “Person of the Year” in the Village of Sag Harbor for donating time, talent and resources to create and restore significant public spaces in the Village.
Edmund graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor’s in history, followed by study at the New York Botanical Garden School of Horticulture. He received a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Soon after, he joined The Delta Group in Philadelphia and then the venerable New York firm of Clarke and Rapuano before founding Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects with his partner, Maryanne Connelly, in 1991.