Our technical staff is headed by firm principal Elena M. Pascarella, ASLA. We are capable of serving as either prime or associate consultant. We also utilize contract personnel for specialized needs such as graphic design. We are comfortable with a multidisciplinary approach to projects both collaborating with and utilizing the services of architects, wetland biologists, engineers, and planners as required to provide clients with comprehensive services.

Elena M. Pascarella, ASLA – Principal

Elena M. Pascarella has worked as a landscape architect in New England for over 35 years. She established Landscape Elements, LLC to provide landscape architectural services with a focus on ecological conservation and cultural resource preservation as both are key elements towards creating sustainable designs.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Elena furthered her interest in historic landscape architecture through graduate studies at the University of Virginia. She understands landscape stewardship as both a private consultant and public practitioner having served as a landscape architect for both the City of Providence and the State of Rhode Island before she founded Landscape Elements LLC.

Elena is past president of the RISD Alumni Association and a former member of the RISD Board of Trustees. She has served the landscape architecture profession both as a member of the CT Chapter ASLA executive committee and currently as the HALS Liaison for the RI Chapter ASLA executive committee. She also serves on the program committee for RI Chapter WTS (Women in Transportation Seminars)