Suzman Design Associates is a landscape architecture firm based in San Francisco. Their mission is to design beautiful, functional, and restorative landscapes that reflect their settings' unique characteristics. They create modern landscapes emphasizing structure, materials, spatial continuity, and transparency between indoor and outdoor spaces. Their collaborative process focuses on client service, teamwork, consensus building, and communication. They are known for their attention to details and expertise across different plant ecosystems and materials.

1. THE MODERN LANDSCAPE Suzman Design Associates
Landscape Architecture
1265 Battery Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
415.252.0111
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3. Our Mission
To design places of great beauty
that are stylistically diverse,
functional and restorative,
reflecting and preserving the
unique historic, cultural and
environmental characteristics of
their settings.

5. Design Philosophy
Our Design Approach is to create distinctive,
livable modern landscapes that emphasizes the
creative use of structure and materials, elegant
detailing, spatial continuity and transparency that
dissolves the boundary between indoors and
outdoors.

7. The Collaborative
Process
• Client Service
• Building Strong Teams through
Collaboration and Partnerships
• Consensus Building
• Communication

9. Art in the Landscape

28. IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS

30. M ATERIALS

50. XERISCAPE PLANTINGS

58. TEXTURES AND COLOR

68. Rooftop Terrace
Paris

69. Rooftop Terrace
Paris

70. SIM PLE AND BOLD

72. Hawaii Residence
Photography by Matthew Millman

73. Hawaii Residence
Photography by Matthew Millman

74. Hawaii Residence
Photography by Matthew Millman

75. Hawaii Residence
Photography by Matthew Millman

76. Pebble Beach Residence
Photography by Mark Darley

77. Pebble Beach Residence
Photography by Mark Darley

78. Pebble Beach Residence
Photography by Mark Darley

80. Upper Hollow Farm
Austerlitz, NY

81. Upper Hollow Farm
Austerlitz, NY

82. Upper Hollow Farm
Austerlitz, NY

83. Upper Hollow Farm
Austerlitz, NY

84. Upper Hollow Farm
Austerlitz, NY

85. Tiburon Residence

86. Los Altos Hills Residence
(Sketchup model)

87. Los Altos Hills Residence
(Sketchup model)

88. Chevron Corporate Campus

90. Ritz Plaza Hotel
South Beach

91. Marin Community Foundations
Rooftop

92. Campus

93. CITRIS Headquarters
University of California, Berkeley

94. CITRIS Headquarters
University of California, Berkeley

95. Stillheart Retreat & Sanctuary

97. Lawrence Livermore Campus STAFF’S PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AT OTHER FIRM S

98. Bentley School STAFF’S PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AT OTHER FIRM S

99. Bentley School STAFF’S PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AT OTHER FIRM S

100. What sets us apart?
• Exceptional Client service and
communication
• Understanding of Site and User Issues
• Deliver high quality work on time and
within budget
• Diverse design expertise from modern
to historic
• Attention to details
• Experts in a wide variety of plant
ecosystems and materials