PWP Summer Internship 2026
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PWP Landscape Architecture
Berkeley, CA, US
Summary
Interns will be immersed in project teams, experiencing all aspects of a project from concept through construction documents. They will also participate in a week-long Design Charrette and guided site visits to Bay Area projects.
Job Description
SUMMER INTERNSHIP 2026
PWP is offering a full-time summer internship from June 1 to August 7 2026. PWP has a long-standing commitment to linking education and practice. Since the inception of the firm, PWP has offered an internship program that provides students an opportunity for immersion in the working environment of a firm committed to built work. The PWP Internship Program allows students to gain exposure to the inner workings of PWP and our team. The students are not the only ones who benefit from the internship experience…the staff welcomes the energy, enthusiasm, and fresh thinking that the students bring.
Every summer, several students are inserted into project teams where they experience all aspects of a project, from concept through construction documents, in order to understand the real world application of their studies.
Rate: $25/hr.
DESIGN CHARRETTE
The students are tasked with a week-long Design Charrette, in which they are pushed to combine their individual design sense with physical materiality in a design proposal that culminates in a juried review.
SITE VISITS
PWP is focused on turning concepts into reality and as such, we feel strongly that experiencing landscapes is an essential part of designing them. Guided visits to Bay Area projects and park sites are a major component of the internship program.
STUDIO VISITS
Throughout the summer, PWP coordinates with acclaimed Bay Area Landscape Architecture practitioners to arrange firm visits, as well as manufacturing and fabrication labs. Students can observe different office structures and working environments from small not-for-profit design studios to very large corporate practices that offer comprehensive design and engineering services at a global scale. Our intent is to provide a range of opportunities to learn about projects in Landscape Architecture and related fields.
TO APPLY
Interested students should complete and submit this online application before Sunday, February 08 2026 at 11:59PM PST.
Print materials and website portfolios will not be reviewed.
* Applicant should have at least one semester of study remaining after the summer of 2026 in order to be eligible for the internship.
Notification: We will review applications as quickly as possible. We will contact successful applicants directly. No phone calls or emails regarding application status, please.
For all other questions, please email us: [email protected]. Please be advised, we do not accept internship application materials via email.
For 35 years PWP Landscape Architecture has developed a tradition of design practice that responds to and influences its environment. We have been fortunate to deliver projects in some of the world’s most politically and physically complex environments fortifying us to advocate for design that performs and respects the land and cultures where we work. Our team brings a range of expertise and interests together around our shared ambition to create legible, beautiful, and enduring places.
We believe that humans are an inseparable part of landscape ecologies. We work diligently to balance constructed and natural systems and are passionate about finding beauty in both. Our constructions initiate relationships between site systems – social, economic, and ecological – that are unique to each place. Our designs tailor the performance of landscapes to the programmatic needs of each project and the realistic budgets of each client. Ultimately, our proposals allow for straightforward and seemingly simple construction of landscapes that link the natural world and the human environment.
Founded
1983
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Architecture and Planning
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Berkeley, California
For 35 years PWP Landscape Architecture has developed a tradition of design practice that responds to and influences its environment. We have been fortunate to deliver projects in some of the world’s most politically and physically complex environments fortifying us to advocate for design that performs and respects the land and cultures where we work. Our team brings a range of expertise and interests together around our shared ambition to create legible, beautiful, and enduring places.
We believe that humans are an inseparable part of landscape ecologies. We work diligently to balance constructed and natural systems and are passionate about finding beauty in both. Our constructions initiate relationships between site systems – social, economic, and ecological – that are unique to each place. Our designs tailor the performance of landscapes to the programmatic needs of each project and the realistic budgets of each client. Ultimately, our proposals allow for straightforward and seemingly simple construction of landscapes that link the natural world and the human environment.
Founded
1983
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Architecture and Planning
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Berkeley, California
