Peter Walker

Meet the landscape architect who is designing the new Civic Center Park project and learn how art has influenced his work and that of his firm.

Peter Walker and Associates has a worldwide practice designing projects ranging from sculpture gardens to new cities, and has collaborated with renowned architects such as Norman Foster, Arata Isozaki, Renzo Piano, and Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson, the architects of the Newport Beach Civic Center.

Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Walker has designed hundreds of projects, taught, lectured, written, and served as an advisor to numerous public agencies. The scope of his concerns is expansive—from the design of small gardens to the planning of cities—with a particular emphasis on corporate headquarters, plazas, cultural gardens, academic campuses, and urban-regeneration projects.

Co-founder of the firm Sasaki, Walker and Associates (established in 1957), Walker opened its W