After designing her first landscape at eight years old, Sue Oda never wanted to do anything else. She has worked with hundreds of clients to create elegant, environmentally friendly outdoor living areas that complement the site’s architecture.

Beginning her career in residential and commercial landscape design, Sue became a landscape architect with the City of Oakland where she created community gardens, playgrounds, and other spaces before returning to her private landscape architecture practice. Sue’s approach to landscape design is distinguished by her signature grace, highly personal approach, and close attention to detail.

Licensed by the State of California and certified by the Council of Landscape Architectural Boards, Sue received her formal training at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architecture Award and the Bakewell/Brown prize for artistic rendering of architectural elements.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nathan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut College.  For more than a decade, Nathan worked for architectural firms in New York City and Oakland, before joining Sue Oda, Inc. in 2018. Nathan’s architectural background adds a welcome dimension and expertise to the firm.  His extra-vocational passions range from world travel and ethnomusicology to the outdoors and spending time with his family.