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.
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.
Shane is an adjunct instructor at UW-Madison's Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture where he teaches design in an environment & behavior studio. He also serves as chair of the City of 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.