"Listening to the environment" is the stated approach of Carter van Dyke Associates, Inc., a planning and landscape architecture firm established in 1984. Principals Carter van Dyke, RLA, ASLA and Peter R. Fernandez, RLA, ASLA maintain a national practice with a staff ranging between five and ten employees. CVDA is noted for elegant and sustainable designs while incorporating the latest research in all aspects of landscape architecture and planning. The firm focuses on the design of academic campuses, healthcare and therapeutic facilities, public spaces, public gardens, large and small private gardens, corporate centers, economic revitalization, and sustainable economic design practices for communities.