SWA Group, a landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm, named David Gal in its Laguna Beach office and Chih-Wei Lin in Sausalito as principals. Three new associates include Michael Hee and Natalie Sandoval in Los Angeles, and Jessica Bacorn in Houston.
Two other SWA principals , its president Gerdo Aquino and David Berkson in Laguna Beach, will be made fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The firm was honored with a first-ever award from the California Architectural Foundation as a result of its work on San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, designed by architect Renzo Piano.