Where Art & Nature Evolve into Living Legacy
Landscape Architecture & Garden Design Studio in San Diego, Southern California & Spain
LASD Studio is a founder-led landscape architecture and ecological design practice for exceptional private properties, estates, rural land and selected cultural landscapes. Rooted in Southern California, and Northern Spain, the studio works across San Diego, Mallorca, Costa del Sol, Madrid and selected international locations.
We bring life to land through evolving ecological systems, shape gardens that belong authentically to their architecture style, and create restorative places that return calm, grounding and clarity to daily life.
Bring Life to the Land. Deepen the Architectural Legacy. Restore Human Energy.
Learn more about our Mission.
Evolving Ecological Landscapes
An ecological landscape is designed as a living system. Terrain, water, soil, planting communities, habitat, climate and long-term stewardship are considered together.
The design establishes a clear structure, then allows room for growth, succession and adaptation. The landscape should become more coherent, resilient and alive as it matures.
Architectural Legacies
Architecture carries lineage through proportion, geometry, material, craft and cultural memory. We read that lineage closely, then shape the landscape so the property feels more complete.
From Neo-Georgian estates and Spanish Colonial Revival homes to culturally specific Japanese gardens, each project receives its own spatial and planted language, grounded in its architecture style, climate and present-day life.
Restorative Landscapes
A landscape can change the quality of a person’s attention. Arrival, movement, enclosure, shade, filtered light, sound, views and seasonal change are composed to reduce visual noise and create calm.
At a primary home, private retreat or vacation property, the garden should provide grounding, privacy, connection and renewed energy through the small moments of everyday life.
Selected Landscape Architecture & Garden Design Projects
Selected landscape architecture and garden design projects across landscape architecture & garden design, communities, HOA’s, public landscape, ecological restoration design projects.
Designing Landscapes That Heal, Endure & Evolve
This manifesto film expresses a principle that continues to guide the studio: a landscape can renew life, carry architectural and cultural continuity, and become a restorative presence in daily life.
Designed as a living framework, it can mature beyond the moment of installation and accumulate meaning across years and generations.
A Founder-Led, Internationally Connected Practice
LASD Studio operates as an appointment-only design practice. Founder and Design Lead Yura Lotonenko remains directly involved from the first reading of the site through design development and implementation coordination.
Project-specific teams bring together local surveyors, technical specialists, licensed professionals and independent contractors according to the property, region and jurisdiction. This keeps the work authored, technically clear and locally accountable.
Advanced in-house design systems support BIM coordination, grading and drainage logic, water-use analysis, quantities, cost evaluation and metric–imperial workflows for our US - European workflow. Technology protects the design idea as it moves toward construction; design authorship and site judgment remain central.
Our Landscape Design Process
The work is structured in clear phases so that each level of design is understood before the next commitment is made.
Phase A. Site Analysis & Conceptual Landscape Design
The property is studied as an architectural, ecological and human system. Phase A establishes the design direction, master concept, spatial structure, ecological strategy and preliminary construction range.
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Phase B. Design Development & Technical Documentation
The approved concept is developed through materials, planting, grading, drainage, irrigation, lighting, quantities and construction information according to the agreed scope.
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Phase C. Permitting & Regulatory Coordination
Where permits, engineering or professional certification are required, the design is coordinated with appropriately qualified local professionals.
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Phase D. Construction and/or Construction Administration
Independent contractors contract directly with the client. LASD Studio may support bid comparison, design clarification and construction administration where included in the project agreement.
Explore Our Landscape Design Working Process in details.
Client & Professional Perspectives
“Few landscape designers in California bring the level of artistry and sensitivity that demonstrates through LASD Studio. Truly exceptional work.”
- Kimberly A.
Former President, Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), San Diego
“The garden feels timeless and deeply aligned with the vision for the property.”
- Jennifer C., Historical Designation Property owner
“What stood out most was the level of personal care. The team understood the vision and delivered beyond expectations - on time and within budget.”
- Oliver M., La Jolla Property Owner