Aida Miron

Aida Miron is an educator and designer and is the co-founder and partner of the landscape design studio: La Casona Garden Design based in Miami. Her work is grounded in the fields of architecture and landscape design and explores notions of ecology, sustainability & urbanism. Aida has taught architecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture and landscape design at Ponce PCU/Hunter College. She has lead design workshops and been a guest critic at a number of architecture schools in the US and Europe.

Her studio, La Casona Garden Design, is a research-design-build practice with a focus on ecological restoration and regenerative design. They are currently working on the urban landscape design for Oolite Arts, one of the largest non-profit organizations supporting the visual arts in Miami, with architects Barozzi Veiga & Ken Cook from Native Tree.  Among their projects is the landscape design for the Rubell Museum Miami by Selldorf Architects in collaboration with Juan Valadez. Other current and upcoming landscape design projects include collaborations with Jacobsen Arquitetura & Studio Tupi from Brazil, BIG, Strang Design & Brillhart Architecture in Miami, the Fotografiska Museum & NeueHouse with Rockewell Group, STA & Culture works in Miami [currently on hold], the restoration and landscape design of an Alfred Browning Parker site in Miami & projects in Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean and NYC.

Aida was a lighting designer with the Specialist team at Buro Happold in NYC, collaborating on the upcoming MIT Music building with SANAA, the Quinnipiac University in Hamden with DLab, the Boeing Aerospace Center in Boston with Stantec, the Branson Estate in Mosquito Island, Dia’s Broken Kilometer in NYC, the Book Tower in Detroit with ODA, a cultural center in Doha with Diller/Scofidio + Renfro and contributing to various lighting design phases on projects for Studio Gang, Peter Zumthor & Snohetta, among others.

She was a project manger and designer at T.Kondos Associates, leading lighting design projects in Latin America and the US, such as the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum in Costa Rica, the Miraflores Archeological Museum in Guatemala & the Aston Martin tower in Miami. Recently she collaborated with the Dumbo experimental studio the Seed, as lighting design lead.

She has over 18 years of experience as an architectural designer, landscape designer and lighting designer, working on a wide range of cultural, civic,  educational, hospitality, residential, urban and commercial projects in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She has volunteered on infrastructure projects in Latin America with Engineers Without Borders and worked as a researcher in NYC, Berlin, Barcelona and Trondheim. She taught Architecture with Lebbeus Woods at the Cooper Union and studied with Jacques Derrida at NYU.

She is a two time recipient of the BKH grant in Norway, a Bauhaus Stiftung grant & the Abraham E. Kazan award for urban design in NYC.

Bachelors of Architecture – The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

Master of Architecture – Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSAB/UPC

Post-Graduate Degree in Urban Studies – Bauhaus Kolleg Dessau

Masters of Fine Arts – Norwegian Technical University of Trondheim/KiT

Visiting Landscape Architecture Graduate Student – Tromsø Academy of Landscape Architecture & Territorial Studies, the Oslo School of Architecture, AHO-Arctic University of Tromsø

Visiting student at NYU Philosophy Dept.