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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8,420

Acres of Green Space Designed

14

Studio Members

188

Projects Completed

22

Sourdough Loaves Baked this Month

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 eight 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.

Andrew Prindle
Project Lead, ASLA

Andrew Prindle graduated from the University of Washington’s MLA Program and won a 2018 ASLA National Honor Award for Design with Kasia Keeley, and is a 2017 WASLA Scholar Honor Award recipient. While at the University of Washington, Andrew served as a teaching and technical assistant for history and studio courses and was one of the original team members of Urban@UW and the Livable City Year program. He has collaborated on different book projects focused on mapping, urban resistance, and design and democracy. Andrew’s approach to design is rooted in theory and history and balanced by years working in horticulture and construction. In addition to design, Andrew works with David on pursuing new projects. His current fascinations are floodplains, riparian restoration, and toxic landscapes.

Liza Court
Project Manager, ASLA

Liza has a liberal arts background with emphasis in fine arts, experiential learning, and small-scale agriculture. She earned her MLA from the University of Virginia, where she developed research and design methods for sites as varied as volatile delta regions, sensitive arctic tundra, NPS/neighborhood interfaces, post-industrial urban riverfronts, and suburban campus gardens. Liza's professional experience ranges from public parks to mixed-use and affordable housing developments. She enjoys the challenges of weaving together public and private spheres, and balancing social and ecological interests. Liza draws inspiration from the people, plants, and creatures that inhabit each site; she strives to integrate the multiplicity of their experiences into landscapes that will both nourish and delight.

Ying Liu
Senior Designer, ASLA

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 6 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
Designer

Ruochen Wang started her career in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design inspired by public spaces that carry rich layers of history and memories. Born in China and into a generation facing rapid urbanization, commercialization, and its long-lasting social impacts, Ruochen sees both the opportunities and challenges of urban environments and understands landscape architects' fun and possibilities. With her research focused on high-density informal communities in China, Ruochen then graduated with a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture program. She has built up her knowledge in environmental planning with several courses in GIS, remote sensing, and ecological/social analysis in graduate school. Her exploration of art, social science, humanity, and innovation combines knowledge from various fields and brings new perspectives into the design process and practice.

Natalie Martell
Landscape Architect, ASLA, PLA #6696

Natalie is a registered landscape architect with 8 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.

Elena Fox
Designer

Elena Fox received her Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. With a background in architectural design and art fabrication, her design practice is focused on the social implications of space as well as the opportunities to engage communities in creativity and play. While at Cal Poly, Elena worked as both a technician for the university’s fabrication lab as well as a faculty research assistant. Elena’s senior thesis project at Cal Poly focused on developing a system of domestic construction that would facilitate the natural occurrence of a vernacular built environment, as well as returning urban superfund sites back to the commons through mycoremediation. Her project won the AIA Design Citation for contributing to the organization’s advocacy of sustainability and social equity. Elena’s understanding of space as a palimpsest allows her to find patterns, both visible and hidden, within the layers of placemaking that invigorate spaces and landscapes. Coupled with this, her design ethic focuses on site-specific projects that reflect the narratives and contexts of local environments and communities. She is interested in integrating indigenous knowledge of ecology with modern practices of design in order to act as a steward for the growth and sustainability of the land on which we live.

Anqi Zhao
Designer

Anqi is a landscape designer with interest in both the urban humanities and the experiential qualities of nature. She graduated from UC Berkeley’s MLA program and won the ASLA Honor Award for her thesis project on rural logistics landscape. Her experiences in academic research and design practice span across 4 different countries, China, the UK, Japan and now the United States. Having worked with diverse cultures of vastly different cities, Anqi is constantly inspired by the history, traditions, and memories associated with each place and its people. She believes that designs should speak to a community’s unconscious desires. Anqi’s knowledge of the profession is founded on her architectural background and graduate courses in ecological analysis, planting design, psychological factors in planning and GIS. She brings an understanding of both the timeless and the ephemeral aspects of the environment, allowing creativity to cross the borders between architecture and landscape.