Preserving history while innovating across typologies and expanding geographies.

Established in the early 1960s, SWA Sausalito is the firm’s original and oldest continually operating studio. The birthplace of the “large landscape architecture firm,” SWA Sausalito has a highly diversified portfolio both in its program types and locations, with a significant number of public space and planning projects across Northern California, as well as in China, Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Middle East.

Selected Projects

A stone’s throw away from the water in the bayside arts-oriented city, the Sausalito studio occupies the original site where the Marinship Company built WWII ships in the 1940s. Sliding glass doors open to a large wood deck to the east and a garden to the west, showcasing various materials and over 40 species of plants, maintained by staff. When the weather is nice, office life spills out to the courtyards and provides a great place to enjoy lunch or a drink with colleagues during a weekly Hooch happy hour.

The studio, led by Managing Principal Shuntaro Yahiro, is home to SWA’s Accounting, IT, HR, and Imaging teams.