Firm: SWA Group, San Francisco
ASLA Chapter: Northern California
Category: Works

The designs of James Lee are steeped in the inherent qualities of site location and the eccentric characteristic aspirations of the project's special program. He makes the unique qualities of a site obvious and celebrated and seeks clarity of intention in landscapes through visual and physical expression. Articulations of architectural expression create qualities of space seeped in immersive place making that give people special spatial experiences. His goal is to apply the appropriate amount of design to a site to make it obvious and intuitive. His close collaborations with allied professionals have meant that he is brought on to projects early to find the right application of a landscape. His work blurs divides between inside and out, horizontal and vertical, and landscape and architecture.