B.L.A. 1967

Bill Callaway was born in 1943 and raised in Courtland, California, on a Sacramento River Delta ranch that his family has farmed since 1850. In 1967, as the first in his family to go to college, he graduated from Cal with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree, spent six months in the Marine Corps Reserve, and reported for work at Sasaki Walker Associates (SWA) in San Francisco. In 1969 he went to Harvard Graduate School of Design for a Master of Landscape Architecture degree, completed in 1971, and returned to SWA, which had changed its name to SWA Group and moved to Sausalito. In 1994 he was made a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects. He was named President of SWA in 1992 and Chief Executive Officer in 2002. SWA was awarded the ASLA Firm Award in 2005.

During the forty years with SWA Bill has been a designer, urban designer, and physical planner. Among his projects are Concord Pavilion; Oakland City Center; Fireman's Fund Headquarters; IBM Almaden Research Center and Refugio Valley Park in the Bay Area; Columbus, Indiana, City Hall; The Georgia World Congress Plaza in Atlanta; and Filinvest City, Tuen Mun, and Beijing new towns in Asia.

Bill is married to Barbara Meacham (UC Berkeley M.L.A. ’73) and has four children: Amy (UC Berkeley B.A. ’94), Peter (UC Berkeley B.A. ’97), Catherine (UC Davis B.S. ’09) and Andrew (San Francisco Art Institute B.F.A. ’11). His first grandchild was born three months ago.