René Bihan, ASLA
| Office |
SWA Group 301 Battery St., Mezzanine North San Francisco, Ca 94111 |
|---|---|
| Phone | (415) 836-8770 |
| rbihan@swagroup.com | |
| Web Site | http://www.swagroup.com/ |
Biography
René Bihan is the Managing Principal of SWA Group's San Francisco office. SWA is an international Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Planning firm with offices in California, Texas, and China. René is an accomplished Landscape Architect, Urban Designer, and Educator interested in issues of Urbanism, Landscape Design, and their symbiotic relationship to dense urban cities. Based out of the San Francisco office, his studio was recently recognized with the Urban Land Institute Global Award of Excellence for Beijing Finance Street, a significant urban park in the heart of historic Beijing. SWA San Francisco was also awarded a National ASLA honor award for Poly International Plaza in Guangzhou, China.
René is an active member of the Bay Area's architecture and design community, having been a Commissioner for the San Francisco Arts Commission, sitting on the Civic Design Review Panel, and a member of the Better Streets Advisory Committee. René is also the Bay Area liaison for Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He has an in-depth familiarity with construction, studio arts, and contemporary architecture. René credits this varied background with his desire to synthesize conceptual ideas with practical solutions on a wide variety of development projects around the world.
René received his Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1994 and his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly in 1988.
