Our team of designers encompasses a broad range of talents in the arts, building trades, plant sciences, horticulture, and landscape architecture. We build on collaborations with clients, consultants, and contractors and value the richness of teamwork.

C+RLA is a women-owned small business led by Kate Ries, and certified by NWOBC.  Our leadership, combined with a broad-based team of talented designers, enables us to provide our clients with a full spectrum of design and consulting services.  Through collaborative engagement with our clients, stake holders, and other professionals, C+RLA produces landscape architecture of the highest caliber.

Founder

Finance + Operations Officer

Founded in 1998 by Sandra Youssef Clinton, FASLA; Clinton & Associates quickly became a nationally recognized landscape architecture firm providing professional design services to residential, commercial, and institutional clients. In 2020 Kate Ries, ASLA joined Sandra Youssef Clinton to form CLINTON+RIES Landscape Architects, PC. In 2022 Kate Ries assumed full ownership of CLINTON+RIES Landscape Architects. Sandra Youssef Clinton remains an advisor to the firm continuing to bring her design expertise and endless knowledge to enhancing and keep the firm in the forefront of the landscape architecture, planning, art, and horticultural realms.