SWA Group

For over 55 years, SWA has been recognized as design leaders in the fields of landscape architecture, planning and urban design.  We have received over 800 awards and have worked in 47 states and more than 60 countries.  Our principals are among the industry’s most talented and experienced designers and planners.  Emerging in 1959 as the West Coast office of Sasaki, Walker and Associates, the firm first assumed the SWA Group name in 1975.

Despite being one of the largest firms of its type in the world, SWA is organized into smaller studio-based offices that enhance creativity and client responsiveness.  Over 75% of our work has historically come from repeat clients.  In addition to bringing strong aesthetic, functional, and social design ideas to our projects, we’re also committed to integrating principles of environmental sustainability.  At the core of our work is a passion for imaginative, solution-oriented design that adds value to land, buildings, cities, regions, and to people’s lives.