Steven Tupu

Steven Tupu is the founding principal of Terrain, an award-winning landscape architecture office based in New York. Through his creative leadership, the firm has explored ecologically robust design since 2004. With a practice rooted in the vibrancy and intensity of urban experience, Steven leads his team to richly detailed solutions that transform experiences of nature and the urban. Terrain works within an ecological context - each project, no matter its size, is part of a network of environmental and human connections. Terrain’s projects range from clean water projects in the South Pacific to communal spaces for Affordable Housing to rooftop children’s play spaces to a park for a 62-acre post industrial power station on the Salem, MA waterfront.

Hailing from Wellington, New Zealand, Steven received his Bachelor Degree in Landscape Architecture with Honors from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia in 1993. After completing his studies, he immigrated to the United States where he accrued over 10 years of experience working for Weintraub + diDomenico and Thomas Balsley Associates. In 1999 he was awarded First Prize in the International Design Competition for the East River organized by the Van Alen Institute in NYC. In early 2004 Steven launched Terrain. Steven is a licensed Landscape Architect, registered in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Massachusetts.

Maggie Condon

Maggie Condon is a licensed landscape architect with over eighteen years of professional experience and an accomplished background in fine arts and film. With a love for hands on work with nature, Maggie firmly believes in the power of landscape as a transformative experience. After eleven years of experience at a large, multi-disciplinary firm, Maggie has extensive knowledge of how landscapes are built in the complex urban environment. This has translated into her special interest in material research, and constructing in highly crafted and durable methods. With experience in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment and keen attention to detail, Maggie brings excellent communication and leadership skills to Terrain in her role as senior designer and project manager. 

Maggie has a broad range of built project experience including: government work, corporate campuses, research and development, residential landscapes, entertainment districts, university campuses and urban waterfront parks. After working at HLW International Maggie started her own firm, Maggie Condon Landscape Architecture, in 2009. A frequent collaborator with Terrain, she joined the team in 2015 where her years of diverse experience help guide the team on day to day operations and in the creation of refined and durable landscapes

Brian Green

Brian Green grew up in the small, rural community of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.  He received his education in Washington, DC where he completed his Bachelor of Arts at American University and his Master of Landscape Architecture at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center. After spending over 15 years in Washington, DC and New York City, Brian has a thorough understanding and appreciation of urban life and issues, as well as the landscapes of his childhood.  His master’s thesis explored how landscape architects can play a larger role in the design of drinking water infrastructure.

At Terrain, Brian brings rigorous focus to construction detailing and improving interdisciplinary collaboration. A thorough researcher with a background in the legal profession, Brian has a talent for interpreting building code and public policy. 

Brian is a seasoned and experienced project manager and lead the Terrain team on complex and successful projects including: Peninsula Hospital Redevelopment, One Hudson Yards, Discovery Communications HQ, Morningside Gardens, and 100 Vandam, among others. 

Brian is a registered landscape architect in the State of New York. 

Eduardo Santamaria

Eduardo Santamaria is a landscape architect at Terrain - he received an MLA with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSD in Architecture from Arizona State University.  His interdisciplinary background and training in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture drive his holistic approach to design. 

Eduardo’s international work experience and travels, which include Mexico, Zimbabwe, China, Qatar and Germany, provide a diverse and seasoned exposure to cultural attitudes towards landscape, materiality and construction.  At terrain, he is deeply involved in the iterative design process ranging from large scale visioning to detailing. 

Prior to joining Terrain, Eduardo worked at !melk landscape architecture and urban design as an Associate developing large-scale international projects and at Andropogon Associates collaborating on high-profile domestic projects in Atlanta, GA and Philadelphia, PA.

Cody Erhart

Cody Erhart is a landscape architect and urban designer with experience spanning USA, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. His creative approach is grounded in research and analysis aimed to express sites’ inherent qualities, coupled with material expression and ecological integrity. He currently serves as senior designer and project manager on numerous academic, mixed-use, and hospitality projects at Terrain.

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Cody earned a BLA from the University of Idaho before working in Portland, Oregon, and later Asia early in his career. After returning to the U.S., he attended the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design and received a Master’s of Landscape Architecture degree with a Certificate in Urban Design.

Prior to joining Terrain, his work in China as an urban designer & planner included civic infrastructure works, urban waterfronts, and new town developments. Several of these projects have gone on to win international awards including a (U.K.) Royal Town Planning Institute Award for Planning Excellence, a Silver Medal from the Hong Kong Institute of Planners, and a Special Citation from the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design.

Cody is a registered landscape architect in the State of New York.

Anita Nai-Tzu Cheng

Anita Cheng is a landscape designer with a background in architecture. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Anita has spent many years living in Austin, TX and Boston, MA before moving to New York City. Before joining Terrain, she completed her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. During her summer while in the graduate school, Anita participated in the Yucatan Initiative Fellowship where she worked with Mexican federal housing agency on a public space design proposal that seeks to preserve the cultural identity and patrimony of Mexico.

Her interests in landscape architecture focus on fostering cultural and social identity through place making as well as establishing ecological and experiential public realms in the urban context. She hopes to bring her cross-disciplinary background to better communicate between architecture and landscape architecture.

With a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Northeastern University, Anita was previously a staff architect at Francke French Architects in Boston where she worked on several single- and multi-family residential projects.

Rui Tao

Rui Tao is a landscape designer who grew up in Suzhou, a city with a long tradition of gardening in China. Rui received her Master of Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Nanjing Forestry University.

At RISD, Rui participated in a District Improvement Program that collaborated with the local government of Fall River, MA and carefully designed and launched a series of public engagement events. She learned firsthand how engaging the public could catalyze design vision and physical change in a community.

Rui has strong interests in leveraging existing infrastructure, local ecologies, and user input in her design work. She hopes to improve quality of life and create a sense of place through systematic strategies and innovative approaches. Prior to joining the Terrain, Rui worked as a landscape designer both in China and Boston and worked as a research assistant in a non-profit organization.

Anna Tiburzi

Anna Tiburzi is a landscape designer and geographer. She received her education at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry where she received her Master of Landscape Architecture. Throughout Anna’s undergraduate and graduate studies, which have included travels to Argentina, Germany, and Western Canada, as well as parts of the northeast United States, Anna has immersed herself in the study of landscapes and their environmental, social, and cultural processes.

Anna’s graduate capstone focused on monuments and memorial landscapes to produce a design-oriented handbook. The handbook, “Monuments and the Politics of Memory,” explores the history, forms, language, and conversations surrounding these landscapes and their processes to create a foundation for discussion between designers and non-designers alike.

Prior to joining the Terrain team, Anna worked with the SUNY Research Foundation and SUNY ESF’s Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation, in partnership with the National Park Service’s Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, to prepare research documentation, graphics and simulations, and treatment recommendations for cultural landscapes throughout the northeast region.

Natalie Khoo

Natalie Khoo is a landscape designer at Terrain. She grew up between Hong Kong and Singapore and worked professionally in Shanghai and Boston before moving to New York City. Prior to joining Terrain, she graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Having spent her life in urban centers, her interests in landscape architecture focus on the relationship between nature and the growing city. Her master’s thesis explores the boundary of conservation areas and their agency in the rapidly urbanizing environment. Her design reconsiders the identity of these landscapes amidst the economic and political agendas of the city, from the scale of zoning plans to the details of the planting scheme.

With a Bachelor of Landscape Studies from the University of Hong Kong, Natalie previously worked in an architectural firm in Shanghai and assisted in various research and teaching positions from the University of Hong Kong and Harvard GSD.

Joe Norman

Joe grew up in Wellington, New Zealand where he completed an honors degree in spatial design at Massey University. As part of Joe’s studies, he took the opportunity to study abroad where he took courses in both landscape architecture and interior architecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

His thesis explored how informal pockets of nature within an urban context can greatly effect the biodiversity experienced within cities and assist in the redefinition of what we understand is nature. This project received an award for design communication and was published in The Artichoke magazine, an Australian publication on architecture and design. The project was also a finalist for the New Zealand best awards in spatial design.

During the Covid pandemic, Joe returned to New Zealand working for a local landscape design firm where he worked on a wide range of residential projects, honing his ability to work with smaller, intimate gardens whilst developing his skills in planting design.