Design from the Ground Up

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San Diego native Joseph Y. Yamada has shaped many of this city’s most famous landmarks. In 1954, he joined forces with renowned landscape architect Harriet Wimmer. Together, as a woman and a Japanese-American man post-WWII, an unlikely duo for the era, they broke through barriers and became some of the most sought-after landscape architects in Southern California. Their designs represent some of the mid-century’s finest. Today, Wimmer Yamada and Caughey remains the longest-running landscape architecture firm in San Diego. As Yamada retires, partner and protégé Pat Caughey looks back at this master’s body of work.

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