Adrian Tiafierro Keys is a Florida-based landscape architect and founder of Keys Ecological Design, a Sarasota studio specializing in sustainable, climate-resilient landscapes.
Adrian Tiafierro Keys grew up surrounded by Florida’s wild beauty — the mangroves, dunes, and waterways of Sarasota.
In 2014, he founded Keys Ecological Design, a Sarasota-based studio that creates sustainable, climate-adaptive landscapes. Adrian also teaches at the University of South Florida and serves on the Florida ASLA board, helping shape how future designers think about ecology and community.
What Hurricanes Teach You Fast If you live and work on Florida’s coast long enough, you stop thinking of hurricanes as rare events. You start thinking of them as part of the design brief. Every year, I get the same phone calls after a storm. People stand in their yards
A Different Kind of Florida Garden For a long time, food gardens in Florida were treated like a side project. You tucked tomatoes behind the garage, kept herbs in a few pots, and tried not to think about the heat, the pests, or the daily watering. Meanwhile, the front yard