Aishwarya Dharmarajan

Senior Landscape Designer

Aishwarya Dharmarajan is a landscape designer with a background in architecture and landscape architecture. Aishwarya brings this multidisciplinary lens to her current work on the LinC, providing design detailing and working on construction documents for a highway-to-park conversion project that will create an eight-acre oasis in downtown New Rochelle. For the design of Oakdale playground, a nature-based play area in Hudson, she is preparing client presentation materials and community meeting graphics while keeping up with the fast-moving project timeline. Before joining Starr Whitehouse, Aishwarya was a designer at Bjarke Ingels Group where she worked on design development, subconsultant coordination, and construction documentation for the North/West Battery Park City Resiliency Project — addressing the impacts of sea level rise and storm damage on a dense residential area in Lower Manhattan. Across all of her projects, Aishwarya brings her professional interest in creating inclusive, resilient and people-centered public spaces. She received her bachelor’s in architecture from KRVIA, University of Mumbai and her master’s of landscape architecture from University of California, Berkeley. She has received the ASLA NCC Student Merit Award, H. Leland Vaughan Memorial Scholarship, ASLA Certificate of Merit in Graduate Category, and AWAF – KFA Architecture Scholarship, and has been recognized as a 2024 LAF Olmsted Scholar.

Representative Projects:

Streets, Public Realm, and Infrastructure

The LinC Highway-to-Park Conversion, New Rochelle, NY
Niagara Falls State Park Rainbow Bridge Study, Niagara Falls, NY

Climate Resilience Planning

North/West Battery Park Coastal Resiliency, New York, NY*

Park Design

Oakdale Park Playground, Hudson, NY

*Work completed prior to joining Starr Whitehouse