Ted Marchant

Ted Marchant grew up in Mississauga, outside Toronto, Ontario, in a landscape marked by its many rivers. He spent much of his early life exploring the creeks and ravines that run behind his childhood home. After earning two undergraduate degrees, majoring in both English and History and Marine Biology and Oceanography, Ted taught ESL in Korea, where he lived for two years. He then pursued a master’s in Environmental Studies, focusing his research on insects and the commercial viability of insect-rearing. That led to Ted founding a start-up raising black soldier flies for the aquaculture industry.  

It was during summer breaks from academia, when he was laying dry stone paths and building a pond for his family, that Ted turned towards landscape architecture, earning another master’s degree from the University of Toronto. Now a member of the New Haven studio, Ted is engaged on the Williams College Housing Renewal Study, the Connecticut Museum of History’s Hartford site, Great Island Vision and Master Plan, and a series of private residences in the Northeast