David Barwick

Biography

David Barwick was one of the first licensed landscape architects in the State of California. From 1951-54 he was a landscape architect for Claude T. Lindsay Co. working on a housing development in Menlo Park and the US Geological Survey building. In 1954 he became the Chief Architect for Oliver Rousseau Organization in Hayward, CA designing homes for various housing projects and later in 1958 he became a general building contractor designing and building homes in Tustin and Santa Ana.

He was the project landscape architect from 1964-68 for Rossmoor Leisure Worlds in Laguna Hills, CA and Cranbury, NJ which was a planned community development for retirees. He joined Bechtel Corporation in 1969 as a project landscape architect designing various industrial projects and Calabasas Park, a 3000 acre planned community in Los Angeles County.

David retired from Bechtel in 1986 and continued his own consulting business for the cities of Moorpark, and Simi Valley, CA.

In 1998 he retired from active involvement as a landscape architect and continues to live in California.

He is also licensed in Arizona. David was a member of the 1985 Experts Panel for the Uniform National Examination for Landscape Architecture and is a member of ASLA.