Garden + Landscape
Berman Rivera Lang is a practicing landscape designer and urban gardener with over 15 years of experience within the varied site conditions of South Texas xeric environments. Projects span a range of functions, formalities, and scales placing emphasis on accentuating site conditions and elements via contrasting combinations of curated vegetation and regional material palettes.
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Post-design, installations are performed with mindful consideration to soil quality, conservative irrigation applications, ecological function, and follow-up performance measurements. From upscale residential estates, municipal community centers, and environmental organizations, his works exemplify formalized architectural plantings, regenerative private and community urban gardens, ecological restoration, and site management strategies.
As a designer of exterior spaces embedded in nature, his approach is largely rooted within the observation of contextual elements that make each site and space singular. Unique site nuances are embraced as opportunities for abstracted interpretations to further accentuate, incorporate, and ultimately facilitate novel sensitivities. In this sense, each new project engages a design process of discovery, inspiration, iteration, and development. Frequency in site immersion throughout this process refines and informs conceptual renderings to ensure both functional and practical outcomes.
With a Bachelor of Science in Botany and graduate studies in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, his earliest memories are infused with a fascination for the plant kingdom evolving into interpretations of plants as structural elements of spacemaking and utility. Cultural significance of the human-plant interface is at the heart of every project and primary to those with urban garden elements that have shown to enrich the lives of clients and their families.
Prior to establishing River Lang Design, Berman operated as Gärten City Landscape Design since 2013. From 2018-2020 he was recruited by the City of Laredo to head an ambitious project that involved the establishment of a community garden, municipal tree and plant nursery, and major urban tree planting effort as part of a city masterplan.