Full Name
Sarah Swanseen
Job Title
Senior Landscape Architect
Company
The OLIN Studio
Speaker Bio
Sarah is a senior landscape architect and certified planner based out of OLIN’s Los Angeles studio. She is a lead designer on the Sepulveda Basin Vision Plan, a community driven process to reimagine a 2,000 acre flood basin with multi-benefit natural systems thinking. With a background in Biology and Environmental Studies, she is driven to work within the interface of climate resilience, culture, and the built environment. Since joining OLIN, she has worked at a variety of scales and across project types, including most notably the Los Angeles River Master Plan Update, Caño Martín Peña Comprehensive Infrastructure Master Plan, and ResilienCity Park which opened to the public in the summer of 2023. Sarah graduated with her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Southern California, where she earned an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Sarah Swanseen