Sarah Swanseen, RLA, ASLA, AICP

Associate

Sarah is a landscape architect and planner driven to practice at the intersection of climate resilience, culture, and the built environment. As an associate in OLIN’s Los Angeles studio, she works with institutions, agencies, non-profits, and community advocates at a variety of scales and across project types. Sarah is a project lead for the ongoing Sepulveda Basin Vision Plan initiative, a community-driven process to reimagine a 2,000-acre flood basin with multi-benefit natural systems thinking. Other completed projects include the LA River Master Plan, City of LA Park Needs Assessment, Caño Martín Peña Comprehensive Infrastructure Master Plan in Puerto Rico, and ResilienCity Park in Hoboken, NJ.

Sarah earned a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Rowan University, informing her work with landscape systems from macro to micro. She also holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism from the University of Southern California, where she has returned to teach graduate landscape design studios in the School of Architecture.