"Design can transform simplicity into the unique and the everyday into a celebration."
The creation of unique experiences through design is at the forefront of Susan Grissim's principal leadership. She promotes pedestrian friendly and appropriately scaled design, minimal impact on the environment, and the innovative use of common materials.
These social values are reflected in her work in urban planning and streetscape design, municipal projects, schools, multi-family housing, shopping centers and urban revitalization projects. Her educational and early work experience in the western part of the country has inspired her use of design to enhance regional differences.
Principal and Director of Operations for the firm, she received a Foreign Exchange Fellowship from Arizona State University and an Arizona Federation Garden Club Scholarship, and was an initiate into the Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society.
Bachelor of Science
Michigan State University - 1981
Bachelor of Science in Design
(magna cum laude)
Arizona State University - 1988
Dale Carnegie Program - 1993
State of Michigan Registered Landscape Architect
License No. 1141 - 1993
State of Missouri Registered Landscape Architect
License No. LA-2005032425 - 2005
State of South Carolina Registered Landscape Architect
License No. 947 - 2006
State of Florida Registered
Landscape Architect
License No. LA 6666872 - 2007
State of California Registered Landscape Architect
License No. 953 - 2007
State of Arizona Registered Landscape Architect
License No. 47139 - 2007
CLARB Certified Landscape Architect
(Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards) - 2005
American Society of Landscape Architects