About Irena Romovacek

Irena Romovacek - Biography

Irena has worked to create, preserve and sustain the landscape in a variety of roles. She is a landscape designer, NYS certified arborist and project manager with much varied experience. Her diverse background enables her to take the measure of a site, divine a sense of place and help her clients imbue it with their own essence; all in the service of creating an aesthetic environment possessed of integrity and sustainability. She has guided projects from conceptual phase through construction to ultimate completion in private and public sectors.

She has expertise in the area of Green Roofs and Greenwalls most notably the design and installation of the Green Roof at Citifield, home of the New York Mets baseball team. Most recently she has utilized her horticultural and ecological expertise, as team and project leader to provide Wetland delineations, Wetland delineation reports and Wetland permitting support. She provided Construction management support and oversight of the construction of a Saltwater Wetland Restoration Project, and provided continuous salt marsh monitoring and reports.

Born in the Czech Republic, Irena observed the interface of man and nature through life in the cosmopolitan city of Prague.  Here the golden architecture, brilliant parks and city spaces enhanced her innate sense of design.  As a child during bucolic sojourns to her parents’ “weekend house” in the country, Irena filled her artist’s notebook with the plant studies that would be the precursor to a lifelong interest in the arboreal.

Through the school of Landscape Architecture at Syracuse University, Irena was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Grant to lead a Landscape Architecture Study Team in developing a use and preservation plan for the newly created Prespa National Park in Greece. Prespa National Park is one of the few nesting site in Europe for the Great white and Dalmation pelicans.