JWDA Architects in downtown San Diego's Bankers Hill district, near Balboa Park, is an architecture and urban design studio founded in 1977 with projects spanning Southern California and major cities across Asia. The firm's mixed-use and high-density residential towers integrate plaza-level public space and streetscape elements, with landscape design on those ground-plane environments coordinated through Infinite Sky Landscape Design. Its founding principal holds both a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard and was elected to the AIA College of Fellows in 2003 for contributions to architectural design. The studio's LEED Gold-certified work reflects a dual emphasis on sustainable systems and contextual urban form, informed by past service on the Centre City Development Corporation board and its oversight of downtown entitlement and density frameworks. Ground-up tower construction at that scale requires phased coordination with general contractors — subterranean parking, podium retail, and residential floors sequenced as separate bid packages — a delivery the firm manages with builders including Harper Construction Co. The firm's most complex completed project is The Lindley, a 37-story, 800,000-square-foot LEED Gold tower near Little Italy that integrates housing, hospitality, and ground-floor retail into one of downtown San Diego's tallest recent structures.