David Arbegast, FASLA, earned a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University in 1950 and his master’s in that subject from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. During the mid-1950s, he began work at Osmundson & Staley where he was involved in such projects as Kaiser Center in Oakland, Marine World in Redwood City, Standard Oil Plaza in San Francisco, and the Pacific Telephone Company offices in Sacramento. In 1968, Arbegast left the firm and established his own partnership based in Berkeley. He retired in 2006.