Peter Walker and Partners

What Peter Walker and Partners does

Peter Walker and Partners (PWP Landscape Architecture) is a Berkeley, California-based landscape architecture firm providing comprehensive design services for large-scale civic, academic, workplace, cultural, and ecological projects. Founded by Peter Walker with a project history extending back to the late 1950s (formal firm founded 1983), the practice employs 51-100 staff and operates an international footprint spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. The firm's portfolio includes landmark commissions such as the National September 11 Memorial, Jewel Changi Airport, Salesforce Transit Center Park, Glenstone Museum, and Barangaroo Reserve, accumulating over 200 documented industry awards including the 2012 ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award.

PWP delivers a single integrated service — landscape architecture — structured across 15 typologies including parks and gardens, cultural institutions, civic landscapes, campuses, workplace, academic, health and wellness, government, hospitality, retail, residential, master planning, transportation, waterfront, and ecological restoration. Engagement runs from master planning through construction implementation. The firm holds no proprietary platforms, APIs, or software products and operates on standard landscape architecture design tools; technology is not a differentiator. Marketing and business development rely on portfolio visibility, industry award recognition, and professional networks rather than direct sales channels.

The business model is project-based professional services with pricing not publicly disclosed. Work is secured through competitive bidding, design competitions (e.g., the 2004 World Trade Center Memorial competition), and direct institutional relationships with government, academic, corporate, and cultural clients including Stanford University, Novartis, Harvard University, the University of Texas system, Salesforce, and Glenstone. The firm operates as a privately held, independently owned practice with no parent company, no external investment, and no disclosed subsidiaries.

Name

Peter Walker and Partners

Legal name

PWP Landscape Architecture

Website

https://pwpla.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

PWP Landscape Architecture (Peter Walker and Partners) is a Berkeley, California-based landscape architecture firm providing design services for civic, academic, corporate, and cultural projects globally, including landmark works such as the National 9/11 Memorial and Jewel Changi Airport.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape Architecture Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (541320), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Urban Planning & Master Planning (BPAHAKAD), Regional & Land Use Planning (BPAHAKAE), Commercial Landscape Design & Installation (HSAIABAJ)

Keywords

• Landscape architecture services
• Civic landscape design
• Master planning services
• Ecological restoration design
• Urban park design

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Peter Walker and Partners (PWP Landscape Architecture) provides professional landscape architecture design services for large-scale civic, academic, workplace, cultural, waterfront, transportation, and ecological restoration projects. Services span master planning, design development, and construction implementation across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand, with engagements typically structured on a project-by-project basis with institutional, governmental, and corporate clients.

Product overview

Peter Walker and Partners (PWP Landscape Architecture) is a landscape architecture firm offering comprehensive design services. The firm provides landscape architecture services including parks and gardens, civic landscapes, cultural institutions, campuses, workplace environments, academic facilities, health and wellness centers, government projects, hospitality venues, retail spaces, residential developments, master planning, transportation landscapes, waterfront designs, and ecological restoration. The company operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform with discrete products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Landscape Architecture Design Services Comprehensive landscape architecture design services spanning parks, gardens, civic landscapes, cultural institutions, campuses, workplace environments, academic facilities, health and wellness centers, government projects, hospitality venues, retail spaces, residential developments, master planning, transportation landscapes, waterfront designs, and ecological restoration, delivered to institutional, governmental, and corporate clients globally.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 200 documented awards and recognitions spanning 1960-2020 including ASLA Honor Awards, AIA Awards, and international landscape architecture prizes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Arup: Multidisciplinary engineering and design consultancy with a landscape architecture practice, frequently engaged alongside PWP on complex civic and transportation projects.
• AECOM: Global engineering and design services giant offering landscape architecture as part of broader infrastructure, urban development, and environment practices, often competing for bundled mega-commissions.

Direct peers

• Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture: San Francisco-based boutique landscape architecture firm with a comparable focus on civic, cultural, and residential commissions in the Bay Area.
• Sasaki Associates: Multidisciplinary design practice spanning landscape architecture, urban planning, and architecture, frequently shortlisted alongside PWP for campus and master planning commissions.
• SWA Group: Long-standing, award-winning landscape architecture and urban design firm with a comparable portfolio of civic, waterfront, and campus projects in the US and internationally.
• James Corner Field Operations: Landscape architecture and urban design practice known for iconic public realm projects (e.g., High Line), directly competing with PWP for high-profile civic and cultural commissions.
• Hood Design Studio: Oakland-based landscape architecture and urban design practice with civic, cultural, and public realm projects in the Bay Area and beyond.
• Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Brooklyn-based landscape architecture firm with a comparable portfolio of urban parks, campuses, and cultural landscapes, competing for similar civic and academic clients.
• OLIN: Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning studio with overlapping expertise in cultural, civic, and campus-scale landscape projects.
• Reed Hilderbrand: Cambridge, MA-based landscape architecture practice with strong academic and cultural institution portfolios, often competing with PWP for university and museum commissions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pwplandarch

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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