Michael Wasser Associates

Michael Wasser Associates is a Boston landscape architecture practice whose client list runs from private backyards to institutional campuses — Brown University, Mass Audubon, AstraZeneca and Hope Lodge among them. The firm, based at 1569 Centre Street, describes serving New England, the Eastern Seaboard and the Midwest. Its Houzz page carries three design honors — a New Hampshire Sustainable Design Award in 2005, a Winthrop Urban Design Award in 2007, and a Luxury Living Award in 2006 — alongside a 4.5-star rating from two homeowners. In a 2013 review, one described hiring Wasser to completely landscape a front and back yard — a deck, patio, dog run, fence enclosure, driveway, walkways, retaining walls and multiple gardens — praising his attention to water runoff, grading and plant material, and noting the finished project was later featured on the Belmont Garden Club Garden Tour. A second 2013 review covered a new patio, two walls and a kitchen garden. The written reviews on file both date to 2013, and the license number listed on Houzz (1191) is the firm's own claim rather than one verified against the state registry — worth confirming directly. A fit for a design-driven landscape project — someone planning a full architectural build-out rather than routine yard maintenance.