WENDY ANDRINGA, RLA, WEDG, LEED AP, ASLA
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Wendy has over 19 years of experience designing, managing, and overseeing the implementation of award-winning landscapes in the New York metropolitan region. She excels at coordinating multidisciplinary teams and complex processes for public-private partnerships, municipalities, and development teams. Prior to founding Assemblage, Wendy worked at SCAPE Landscape Architecture, Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, and Dirtworks. At these firms she led projects in higher education, health care, public parks & plazas, adventure playgrounds, waterfront parks, and mixed use developments. Wendy has had academic appointments at the CCNY Spitzer School of Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). Wendy earned her MLA at ESF, where her capstone research took her to Brasília, Brazil to investigate the contemporary urban fabric of the modernist city. Wendy is currently an ASLA-NY Board Member, founder of the ASLA-NY Plant Research Group, and a member of the NY Chapter Climate Action Committee. She also works to advocate for material salvage and reclamation in construction with RECLAIM NYC.
CATE MEERSMAN , WEDG
LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
Cate is a landscape designer with experience in both design and environmental planning. She is passionate about projects that improve the health and resilience of both land and community through collaborative design. Interested in interdisciplinary work, Cate’s personal design research explores the layered and complex history of sites through drawing, mapping, and other forms of generative exploration.
In addition to designing, Cate enjoys teaching and most recently co-taught a summer intensive landscape architecture foundation studio at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Cate holds a BLA from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign where she received a National ASLA Student Honor Award and an MLA from UC Berkeley.
NOELLE LADUE
LANDSCAPE INTERN
Noelle LaDue is entering her final year of graduate study towards a Master’s of Landscape Architecture at Pratt Institute as part of the inaugural cohort of the new landscape program. She comes to the profession through understanding how we move through the environment by studying the sociology of agriculture at Cornell, and brings her background in education and community engagement to her work with Assemblage.