Sarah Gronquist

Sarah is an experienced landscape architect with extensive Bay Area design, project management, and construction experience across a wide range of client and project types. Over the course of her career, she has worked with design build contractors, private residential clients, and large private and public sector multidisciplinary teams. She is an Associate Principal at Placeworks, where she mentors and oversees the Landscape Architecture division. She is the design lead, initial point of contact, and Principal of Record for landscape architectural projects throughout the state of California. As an instructor, Sarah has developed college-level course content for many Bay Area institutions and has lectured on technical issues related to planting design, business practices, grading, construction detailing, and stormwater management. She began her teaching career working with Ray Freeman, co-teaching the Freeman & Jewell LARE Preparatory Course in the 2000s.