2025 Fellows: Liz Einwiller, FASLA, Northern California Chapter

EinwillerKuehl Landscape Architecture, Oakland, CA
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Throughout her 30 years of practice, Liz Einwiller has demonstrated extraordinary design talent along with an unmatched ability to convene people with her enthusiasm, her deep knowledge, and her visionary ideas. And along the way inspire her clients and others to become enthusiastic stewards of the natural world and landscape architecture. Liz joined PWP Landscape Architecture in 1998 and grew quickly as a leader with a focus on construction documentation, working on complex projects at the leading edge of the profession. Since co-founding EinwillerKuehl Landscape Architecture in 2012 with longtime collaborator Sarah Kuehl, Liz has developed gardens that showcase the natural world in ways defined both by the client and the site's potential. At Uptown Station the renovation of a historic building in downtown Oakland included a series of large rooftop terraces requiring a strategy for planting in thin soil profiles. Liz led coordination with the structural engineer, the waterproofing consultant, the contractor, and a meadow expert to create outdoor gathering spaces and contemplative strolling paths within a seasonal flowering meadow. In Calistoga, California, the project design reset three existing structures in a new landscape that uses water wisely, with a linear wall connecting all areas of the garden. Planting was selected to create a framework and seasonal interest and color. A former brownfield site, the Pleasant Hill California library landscape is a teaching example of a restored local ecology using low water native plants as well as a trail head for the natural world. The design is an integrated, legible, and cohesive architectural, landscape, and infrastructure solution. Liz's masterful work on the planting design has become a model project for using low water native plants.