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We are a landscape architecture and urban design collaborative, based in San Francisco…

 
 

We believe design matters, and that people deserve to find value, meaning, and possibility in the places they encounter and occupy. We work with city makers, communities and other visionaries to realize evocative and appropriate concepts, designed and constructed to ensure social vitality and integrity.

We leverage technology to work faster and smarter; people, ideas and culture are the drivers of our process. From biologists and foresters to musicians and neighbors, we collaborate with a host of partners to skillfully integrate sustainable infrastructure and meaningful experiences into enduring, evolving spaces.

Our studio and collaborators bring a wide array of experience ranging across science, design, art, horticulture, construction, and politics. Collectively, we are able to distill complex spatial analysis into high-functioning built environments that connect communities to places through inclusion, delight, and recognition of their capacity to best steward the places and objects we design.

 
 

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We Are A Team Of Many Talents

David Fletcher
Principal + Owner, ASLA, PLA #5377

David is the founding principal of Fletcher Studio. He has practiced in landscape architecture for 30 years, and has worked on the planning, design, and construction of projects ranging in scale from regional watersheds to furniture design. David’s formative education in field biology and fine art created an eclectic foundation where urban ecology, pop culture, and the California landscape intermingle with the everyday. David oversees the Studio’s project portfolio and serves as Design Director for the office’s projects, collaborating with Project Managers, designers, clients, and communities to help bring planning, multifamily housing, and open space projects to fruition. In addition, David has worked in a range of different design applications, including: video games, public art, and speculative environments. The studio’s work has been exhibited internationally and David continues to lecture, write, and review projects exploring possibilities for engaging and enlivening design.

Lauren Ewald
Studio Director, ASLA, PLA #6417

Lauren is a project manager and registered landscape architect with 10 years of experience designing and managing a range of projects, including large urban mixed-use districts, city streetscapes, green infrastructure, public parks, high-end resort communities, multi-family housing, and recently forest cemeteries. She is focused on creating beloved public spaces that are inventive and contextually appropriate. She has unique experience using innovative community engagement tactics to better understand a community’s desires. In addition to providing design leadership across the studio’s active projects, Lauren plays a critical role in our day-to-day studio operations including team development, project staffing and communications.

Natalie Martell
Landscape Architect, ASLA, PLA #6696

Natalie is a registered landscape architect with 10 years of experience designing and collaborating on projects across multiple scales and typologies. From public parks and school campuses to residential landscapes and the interiors of mobile outreach vehicles, Natalie brings thoughtfully crafted design solutions. She is particularly interested in working with communities to create socially and environmentally beneficial landscapes uniquely connected to place.

 

Julie Gossage
Senior Project Manager, ASLA

Julie comes to Fletcher Studio with over 15 years experience in landscape architecture, working on parks and open space, streetscape and trails, mixed-use centers, and campus design. Julie’s relocations around the United States instilled in her an innate sensibility to place and an awareness that each landscape has its own narrative to tell. A graduate of Texas A&M University’s BLA program, Julie began her career as an intern in a small Parks and Rec department in Wheaton, Illinois. There, she gained an appreciation for the value of open spaces and always seeks to connect communities to these pockets of nature, play, and respite. Julie loves to tackle atypical project assignments, generating innovative solutions to the most challenging constraints. Her love of mentorship, incessant learning, and juggling all the pieces of a project complements her role as a Senior Project Manager.

Ying Liu
Landscape Architect, ASLA, PLA #6694

Ying Liu is a landscape designer with a particular focus on planting design, construction detailing, and project coordination. Ying brings 7 years of academic study and research in both China and United States where her work focused on cultural landscapes and UNESCO world heritage sites in South America, China, and the United States. In addition, Ying brings 8 years of professional experience where she has worked on a range of projects, including large academic and tech campuses, urban streetscapes, green infrastructure, public parks, plazas, and open space master planning. Ying’s work is focused on realizing aesthetically inspiring, enduring, and resilient public and private spaces for clients and communities, and brings a particular attention to the interconnections and dynamics of natural and social environments. Ying’s combination of professional and academic experience provides her with a rigorous disposition allowing her to continually test and refine proposed design interventions at a variety of scales.

Ruochen Wang
Senior Designer

Ruochen Wang graduated from UC Berkeley in 2019 with a Masters in Landscape Architecture after working in academia and design in China. Growing up during China’s rapid urbanization, Ruochen sees both the opportunities and challenges of urban environments and takes a calibrated approach to multiple scales of design and experience. She works to understand layers of history, memory, and possibility - working to realize concepts and systems that support expression through emotions, political power, social memories, and cultural footprints buried within and underneath urban life.

Ruochen has taken part in various projects and competitions related to urban design, architecture, landscape, and public art in her professional career, consistently focusing on social and ecological equity issues on multiple scales and different countries. She brings a wide range of experience in ecology, technical and social environmental studies, as well as art and design. Ruochen’s background and passion in fine art allows her to work through the personal, political, and historical while foregrounding the power of personal and aesthetic experiences.

 

Anqi Zhao
Designer

Anqi is a thoughtful and detail-oriented designer, passionate about urban studies and green infrastructure. With a background in architecture, Anqi employs an interdisciplinary approach, integrating care for both humanities and ecology. Her experiences in academic research, competition and design practice across 4 countries have enriched her creative vision, allowing her to navigate diverse cultures and landscapes, finding a unique narrative for each encounter.

Anqi graduated from UC Berkeley’s MLA program and won the ASLA Honor Award for her thesis on rural logistics landscape. She has since worked on a range of projects, including campus planning, public parks, multi-family housing, community gardens and city streetscapes. She carries both poetic sensibility and technical rigor through every phase of design and construction. Her greatest joy is witnessing sketches evolve into places where even the simplest memories are celebrated.

Chris McGuire
Designer

Chris has worked with landscapes on the ground across a diverse range of professions, including habitat restoration, organic farming, ornamental and edible landscaping, irrigation installation, and small-scale greywater systems. He also has studied landscapes from a broader perspective through his undergraduate studies in Earth and Atmospheric Science at Cornell University, and as a content developer for a non-profit advocating local-level sustainability measures. Most recently, Chris graduated from UC Berkeley's MLA program, where he was an assistant instructor for core technical courses in topographic grading and construction detailing, and pursued a master's thesis exploring applications of parametric tools for aesthetic and ecological planting design. 

Chris aims to design landscapes that use sustainable materials, contribute to healthy watersheds and hybrid urban ecosystems, and realize the potential of urban spaces for creating delightful experiences. As a modeler/draftsperson at Fletcher Studio, he helps bring ideas and concepts to life through 3D models and drawings, while also assisting with research and proposals. 

Jorge Zuñiga-Arbildo
Designer

With a background in architecture and a passion for urban and ecological systems, Jorge’s practice is focused on creating vibrant urban places that are resilient and welcoming to all. He is particularly interested in the relationship between buildings and the public realm and the potential of public spaces to generate community identity.

Jorge brings a multi-disciplinary approach by combining his experience in architecture, landscape and urban design. He has worked on projects of various scales including streetscapes, bicycle infrastructure, campus design and neighborhood master plans. Jorge holds a Master of Urban Design from UC Berkeley and a professional degree in architecture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

 

Remy Mitchell
Designer

Remy receives inspiration from the world around him in a practical and emotional sense. For him, great design is when something works without question. He is interested in the ambiguous definitions of urban and natural and what that means for the greater landscape. He designs from an equally emotional and practical space realizing that both cannot live separate from the other. 

Remy has worked on many types of design and creative projects ranging from small scale residential and large scale landscape projects to garage bands, photography, and graphic design work. He has also spent time working in landscape Installation, on land survey crews, and in the outdoor Industry. He received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo while also taking classes in forestry and natural resource management, photography, and city and regional planning. Remy looks at the world through many lenses and is ready to design with purpose.    

Mariko Kaku
Studio Manager

Mariko brings her sharp mind and well-rounded resourcefulness to her role as studio manager, offering organizational structure and support to our busy studio team. With an education in business administration, and experience working with growing companies, she understands how to prioritize the specific needs of a workplace. She’s passionate about finding ways to work most efficiently and is a clear, concise communicator. These qualities have allowed her to form strong relationships with clients, vendors, and our team.

"We love working with Fletcher Studio: they combine incredible creativity with the highest level of technical knowledge of materials and land forming."
- David Baker, FAIA, Principal, David Baker Architects 

"Friends of Jackson Park has had the pleasure of working with Fletcher Studio over the years on a massive renovation project of our neighborhood park. Fletcher Studio created a beautiful, ingenious and ambitious design, taking into consideration the on-site ecologies of the park, thus strengthening our project while staying true to the history of the land. Their ability to understand the nuances of phasing, timelines, and inter-agency relationships has been invaluable in maintaining project schedules and design integrity."
- Jude Deckenbach, Friends of Jackson Park

 

"Fletcher Studio’s landscape architecture for our Abaca multifamily project fills our development team with pride.  It is  truly inspired design - evocative of the site’s history and physically beautiful.  Fletcher Studio was a pleasure to work with during construction and we would be excited to collaborate with them on another project."
- Jesse Herzog, Division President, LMC, A Lennar Company

“Working with Fletcher and the design team means getting heard and understood, perhaps the two most important things I look for in a collaborator. Fletcher Studio knows how to envision the possibilities in the context of their client’s mind’s eye, converting the imagined, the possible, and the impossible into reality.”
- Alex Goretsky, La Stazione SF

“Fletcher Studio was an amazing partner in our neighborhood greening work. They helped craft creative and accessible design sessions where neighbors came together to create a vision for our median tree planting. They developed drawings and visuals so that people could imagine what the project would look like. They did all of this under a real time pressure and while navigating many opinions. I am so appreciative of Fletcher Studio's partnership and talents!”
- ST Mayer on behalf of SMP Greening

" My fond memories of working with the Fletcher team are genuine! They brought a breath of fresh air to our community project. They managed to bring together our diverse views and opinions by sharing insightful and creative approaches to problem solving and collaborating with members of our community. They injected a level of confidence to the project by bringing their many years of experience, really cool technology tools and drawings and of course, their expertise. Every decision came from what they drew out of our collective opinions, and desires. It was always clear that the end result would be a reflection of our community. We were incredibly fortunate to have their participation in our project! "
- Penny Mitchell, on behalf of SMP Greening


 

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2325 Third Street Suite 323
San Francisco, CA 94107
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