Robert Mowat Associates

Firm

img-content-firm-1Situated in Walnut Creek and the Napa Valley are the offices of Robert Mowat Associates. For over 30 years, our firm has provided thoughtful and creative solutions to design challenges throughout the country. Our firm works on select projects of varying scale and type. Within a diversity of design work, we find a common goal: make each and every project succeed beyond the initial vision of our clients and respective users to achieve an environmentally special and emotionally meaningful place.

We deliver solutions that exceed our client’s expectations. A testament to our success is the number of repeat clients, awards and publications associated with our firm over many years.

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Robert Mowat Associates presents a thoughtful approach to each project, focusing on environmental transformation. We embrace a collaborative design atmosphere giving each project an individual fresh approach while respecting the requirements of our clients. Our original and dramatic designs create exciting spaces that impact the way people live, work and enjoy their lives.

Within the cultural context of each project site, Robert Mowat Associates brings together a synthesis of architecture, environmental sensitivity and creativity to achieve the goals of our clients.

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Our design process creates moving and unique environments, delivering our client’s ideas, schedule, budget and agency involvements to successful solutions. Our memorable spaces reflect a broader environmental, social and regional context.

We excel at listening and creating designs appropriate for each particular client’s needs and requirements. Robert Mowat Associates collaborates closely with our clients and their team. While acknowledging each site as unique, the firm acts as change makers designing with innovative forms and traditional materials. We bring concepts of sustainability and xeriscaping along with air and water quality solutions to our regional designs. Our projects are typically composed of bay friendly solutions utilizing recycled and local materials to create innovative forms for social spaces. California native plants, passive and active solar techniques along with water conservation solutions are used to meet our client’s varied design challenges.

Projects bring change to a place or community. We have developed a keen awareness of the interconnected nature of projects, environment and people. We focus on finding these connective elements that change brings to a place or community. Our firm graphically articulates these interconnected systems of people, place and site and brings them into a physical form.

Following a strong design philosophy for the future, our vision and traditions remain focused on creativity, consensus and transformation. We continue into the future providing design excellence for human experiences while never forgetting our environmental responsibility to each site.

We create landscape environments of planned beauty through our attention to detail, aesthetics, budget, schedule and the regional setting of each project.

Our firm is composed of talented and experienced designers chosen for their creativity, technical abilities and enthusiasm. We are dedicated to providing the most forward thinking solutions for our clients, being conscious of our important role and responsibility for environmental awareness in every design we complete.

Services include site selection, analysis, land planning, processing and entitlements along with the schematic and conceptualizing of transformative landscape solutions. Our firm is involved with the public presentation process achieving successful consensus and ensuring stakeholders are included in the final design concept creation. Our firm provides design drawings for all construction elements in the exterior environment. Our services typically include goal making, proforma and cost evaluations, bidding administration and construction observation.

We are dedicated to providing new technologies within the landscape for the conservation of water and the careful use of resources. Our storm water solutions for regional C-3 design are proven technological success stories in streetscape, community and commercial environments.

Robert Mowat Associates looks forward to meeting your design challenge, confident of our creativity and technical abilities and their human value in the magical environments we create.

While rooted in Northern California, RMA works with homeowners, architects, developers, agencies, and project teams on landscape architecture and land planning projects throughout the United States and internationally.

Our staff is composed of talented, educated and experienced designers who have a deep respect and appreciation for both the built and natural environment.

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Robert Mowat ASLA
Principal
Robert Mowat ASLA has been a licensed and practicing landscape architect for over 30 years. He obtained degrees in both Landscape Architecture and Ornamental Horticulture from the California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. He has been an active member in the both the planning and landscape architectural fields serving as a municipal Historic Preservation Commissioner, Water Advisory Board member and a civic board member interviewer over the years. Robert Mowat has served as an L.A. exam grader and test question preparer for the State of California. He lectures and critiques as a visiting professional to university students throughout the state. In his free time, Robert enjoys his family, traveling, skiing and being a professional musician.
Kaye Yan
Landscape Design Associate
Kaye is a creative and enthusiastic landscape designer and LEED Green Associate who brings curiosity, care, and a love for deisns to every project she works on. Growing up in Shanghai, China, she developed an appreciation for design, art, and the relationship between people and outdoor spaces. She later moved to San Francisco to pursue landscape architecture, earning both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the Academy of Art University. Since joining Robert Mowat Associates in 2019, Kaye has worked on residential, multi-unit housing, park, playground, and commercial projects. Outside of work, Kaye loves plants, natural scenery, animals, and finding inspiration in everyday life.