Since 1988, Past Designs has created attractive outdoor spaces for working, living and recreating, dedicated to protecting the environment, and preserving the rich landscape legacy that defines the Northeastern United States. Dedicated to working closely with our clients, meeting budget restrictions and project deadlines.

The office is headed by Lucinda Brockway, an award-winning preservationist and landscape designer whose reputation has been built over twenty-five years. Ms. Brockway does not believe in dominating the design process. Instead, she strongly believes that the most successful designs are builtWisteria out of collaboration — between client, contractor, designer and resident. Our office recognizes that this philosophy includes all of these people, and a plethora of other small office personnel brought in for their special expertise on individual projects. With two books and innumerable articles to her name, Ms. Brockway is well-known for her dedicated professionalism, her attention to detail, and her care and concern for the success of her projects. She has been honored to work on some of our most prestigious historic sites. From Fort Ticonderoga to Historic Morven, in Princeton, NJ, her rejuvenation of these landscape legacies are visited by hundreds of people each year. Her creative private residential designs, both large and small, have won their own excellent reputation, and her client base extends throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee.

Currently, collaborators to the Past Designs office include specialists in environmental planning, architecture, historic preservation, illustration and computer design, engineering, arboriculture, horticulture and historic site furnishings. Because of the geographic range of our clients, a project team, when necessary, is built from local talent – another cost-effective means of networking and utilizing the best people in the best place. Through these collaborations, the best services can be brought to the individual needs of each project, while minimizing office overhead.