Summer Student Programs
For the past 50 years, SWA’s Summer Student Program has gathered emerging designers from a wide range of backgrounds to explore critical questions influencing the design industry at large—many of whom have become leaders within the firm and discipline.
Each year, we invite full-time, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and architecture to apply. Applicants must be returning to their academic program in the following school year, meaning recently graduated students are ineligible. Program locations and subject matter varies by year, but includes a stipend and housing for the full duration of eight weeks. The program is an in-person commitment including site visits, lectures, discussions, and critiques.
Port of L.A.
Summer 2023
Summer Student Programs
For the past 50 years, SWA’s Summer Student Program has gathered emerging designers from a wide range of backgrounds to explore critical questions influencing the design industry at large—many of whom have become leaders within the firm and discipline.
Each year, we invite full-time, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, and architecture to apply. Applicants must be returning to their academic program in the following school year, meaning recently graduated students are ineligible. Program locations and subject matter varies by year, but includes a stipend and housing for the full duration of eight weeks. The program is an in-person commitment including site visits, lectures, discussions, and critiques.
California Burning
Summer 2022
Summer Student Programs
As an annual firm tradition, the SWA Summer Student Program is an excellent opportunity
for university students to learn, grow, and have real-life design experiences.