David Eaton CMLI, PLA, is an award winning British landscape architect, designer and gardener.
Prior to establishing David Eaton Associates LLC in 2018, David worked in several distinguished landscape practices, including LDA Design in England, and Deborah Nevins Associates and Miranda Brooks Landscape Design, in New York City.
David was the recipient of an USCIS 01B visa for extraordinary ability in landscape design, due to managing multiple award winning projects whilst in the UK, and maintained that status whilst working in the U.S. through managing the internationally acclaimed Stavros Niarchos Park and Cultural Center with Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
A focus on residential design in the last 13 years at DNA, and whilst running the office at MBLD, has involved him in projects in numerous and varied locations around the country, and in scales ranging from 200 acre country estates to New York penthouse terraces and gardens.
The son of a 5th generation farmer, David developed a strong horticultural knowledge from an early age. Growing up on the sustainable farmstead, run by his Mother, who herself was a keen organic and locally celebrated gardener, David was fortunate to participate in maintaining a full organic vegetable garden and orchard, including bee hives, and chicken coops. Aged 8 David was given his own corner of the garden to tend and thus the seed was sown.
It was this early exposure to organic gardening and the principles of sustainability which led him to write a dissertation paper on Permaculture, which was published in part by his tutor, whilst undertaking his undergraduate degree in landscape architecture at the University of Central England in 1998. While studying at UCE David was the recipient of the School Book Prize, UCE’s highest honor for studio work. David’s postgraduate Diploma took him back to UCE where he graduated in 2001.
David is a licensed landscape architect in the state of New York and a chartered landscape architect in the UK. He assists the New York chapter of the ASLA with its public awareness campaign and is a juror for Columbia University Master's Degree in Landscape Design and has been a studio critic at the New York School of Design since 2009.
In addition to his landscape architecture and design practice David volunteers for the Gowanus Canal Conservancy in Brooklyn, is an avid landscape photographer, holds a category 3 British parachute license, an A-Certificate skydiving license and is a PADI DiveMaster. David and his family divide their time between New York City and the Hudson Valley.