In recent years, Berger Partnership has been exploring how the systems we design—soil, planting, stormwater—can take a more active role in climate action.

Summer Internship 2025
Alec Simonson, Intern
with Paulina Arango, Belle Miller, and Guy Michaelsen

An exploration of the importance of nocturnal pollinators and how to design our urban environments to support them.

Where our city meets the water is where the streets ends and something entirely new begins…

Imagining a tribute to Bertha, a giant boring machine, as a community artwork and gathering place.

It is not every day we get to leave our desks for the site or shop to build our own designs but when the right opportunity comes along we jump at the chance to get our hands dirty. It makes us better designers.

Dreaming of a pathway of discovery lined with Seattle's most iconic neon signs.

Tactical green infrastructure is a design-build methodology that encourages students and design professionals to work together to identify, design, and construct expedited green infrastructure demonstration projects.

As landscape architects who support urban environments, we seek to maximize ecological function while enhancing the human experience.

As designers, and as users of public spaces, we explored how the design process can embrace an interactive dialogue, shaping and test ways to create ever more enriching places.

This report explores existing urban farms in Seattle to better understand how urban farms function and the challenges they must overcome.

Information and graphics from the report contributed to the City of Seattle’s ASLA 2010 Honor Award for Analysis and Planning and the Washington Chapter of ASLA's Peoples Choice Award.

This study compared the Sustainable Sites Initiative and The Living Building Challenge.