Studio Burns is a landscape architecture practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our work includes residential gardens, as well as commercial and public landscapes throughout Northern California.

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Elizabeth Burns has been designing landscapes for nearly 20 years. She has a passion for working with clients and collaborators to bring a vision to reality. She draws inspiration from the site and the surrounding environment, with sustainability being a key tenant of her designs. A simple yet fundamental goal of the studio’s work is to create beautiful spaces that enhance people’s experience outdoors.

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Prior to starting Studio Burns, Elizabeth worked at Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture (ACLA), where she gained experience on a range of projects and scales including residential, affordable housing, hospitality, and institutional. At ACLA, she and her fellow collaborators won a 2020 ASLA Merit Award for their work on the affordable housing project 901 Fairfax in San Francisco’s Hunters View neighborhood. In 2019, the Calistoga Residence, also completed at ACLA, was shortlisted for a Landezine International Landscape Award. Her work has been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine and the Naturally Beautiful Garden.

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She holds a Bachelors in Horticulture from Purdue University and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from University of California, Berkeley and is a registered landscape architect in California.