STUDIO

MADISON, WI

Based in Madison, WI, Bernau Design brings artistry and problem-solving to highly technical site design projects across the country.  

FOUNDED 2023

Founded in 2023, Bernau Design continues decades of experience in creating award-winning unique outdoor open spaces including parks, plazas, campuses, waterfronts, playgrounds, streetscapes, and more.

PEOPLE SPACES

Bernau Design partners with communities, professionals, and institutions to imagine and build places teeming with beauty and life. 

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SHANE BERNAU  PLA,  ASLA

A licensed landscape architect and graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison, Shane approaches design with rigor and craftsmanship and delights in the detailing to get it built.  His passion for materiality and expertise in storytelling, grounded in midwestern values, balances his overriding motivation to improve quality of life through design.

He is actively engaged in his community, teaches in UW-Madison's Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture, and serves on Madison's Urban Design Commission.

When not immersed in landscape architecture, Shane can be found cranking on his ’49 International pickup, trekking the hills of the driftless area with his wife and kids, or building that "last" project on the family home.