Master planning, landscape architecture, and civil engineering are our specialties.

First, let's walk the land.

Our services range from evaluating the land, all the way through site and detail design, assisting with regulatory approvals, and construction administration.

Where to start? Tell us about your property, your ideas, your vision. We'll establish a team of our landscape architects and civil engineers to do the research, gather the materials, draw the conceptual designs, and review the site's potential with you. Together we will determine the look and feel of your project.

This is how we work. We listen, walk the land and get the plans rolling.

By focusing on the details of fine garden design, this studio creates beautiful, meaningful, and functional spaces that reflect the unique personalities and lifestyles of our clients.



Our exceptional design team offers garden design and site planning in addition to construction phase services. It is our job to personalize the spaces to fit the user's style and needs.


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Lee Gastley, RLA, ASLA, Principal
Susan Maron, CNP
843.884.1667

Clint Rigsby, RLA, ASLA,
R. Blake Sanders
864.298.0534


By focusing on the projects that interest and matter most to it, this studio can provide a superior commitment to research, design, collaboration, focus, and enthusiasm in the realm of urban design.



The studio has access to SW+A's solid Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Due Diligence services. What does this mean? This means that clients will walk away with more than just a cutting edge urban plan. Clients will take home a plan that works.


UES focuses on sustainable projects such as urban infill, sub-urban redevelopment, smart growth, form based codes, and revitalization with a process that is very collaborative, open, and interactive and seeks to always be fresh and innovative. We always strive to be part of the solution.


We love to draw. We love to dream.
Dream with us. urban-edge-studio.com



When people are truly passionate about their work, the result is high caliber performance. We realize this. That's why SW+A allows its employees to pursue their passions, focusing on the facets of their profession that motivate them. Our studio approach to design provides our clients with specialized design teams that live and breathe their niche. The product of this concentrated effort is progressive design, motivated service, and successful projects.

high res studio is a specialized design studio within SW+A that focuses on fine garden design. We offer creative vision, exceptional design and impeccable service for homes, estates, healing gardens, botanical gardens, and parks.


urban edge studio is a group of SW+A that was formed in 2007. The landscape architects and urban designers who are the studio's members came together out of a common passion to create sustainable places with a real sense of community. More than anything else, we seek designs that achieve "innovative appropriateness."