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About the Designers |
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About the Designers
Kathryn Gustafson, Partner
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Kathryn Gustafson brings more than 25 years of distinguished international practice to Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. Her award winning landscapes and structures can be found throughout Europe, North America and the Middle East. Her diverse span of prominent works, ranging from one to 500 acres in size, are known as ground-breaking, contemporary designs that incorporate qualities that are fundamental to the human experience of landscape.
Kathryn Gustafson is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture and a medalist of the French Academy of Architecture. She is the recipient of the Chrysler Design Award and of London's Jane Drew Prize. She is active in lecturing and her work is widely published. Kathryn's recent work may be found in such projects as the Westergasfabriek Culture Park in Amsterdam, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the Seattle Civic Center and City Hall Plaza, the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in London, Seattle's McCaw Opera House and The Garden of Forgiveness in Beirut, Lebanon.
Jennifer Guthrie, Partner
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
A founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Jennifer Guthrie brings exceptional experience in large-scale project management, public process, landscape design and construction oversight. Jennifer has a comprehensive project background; her work has included major civic plazas throughout the United States, public parks, educational facilities, hospitals, museums, and military campuses.
Examples of Jennifer's current and recent projects as Managing Partner include the landscape for Renzo Piano's renovation of the Art Institute of Chicago, the landscape for the University of Washington's South Lake Union School of Medicine, and Seattle's three-block Civic Center Plan.
Shannon Nichol, Partner
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Shannon Nichol, a founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, brings a strong background in designing contextually driven, award-winning landscapes in cities throughout North America. Shannon is known for her inspired responses to local history, views and urban topography. Her locally oriented mindset enables her to establish a shared vision between all participants and thoughtfully utilize local knowledge and insights.
Recent examples of Shannon's work as Design Partner may be found in such projects as Boston's North End Parks, the McCaw Hall Opera House in Seattle and the San Ysidro US-Mexico Border Station project. Shannon is active in lecturing and volunteering in several cities and her work is published internationally.
Piet Oudolf
Plantsman and Plant Designer
Piet Oudolf is renowned worldwide for his imaginative garden designs. Most of the plants he uses to furnish those gardens come from the nursery he runs with his wife, Anja, near Arnhem in the Netherlands. There he has assembled a pioneering collection of plants that are dependable, disease-resistant, easy to maintain, and beautiful throughout the year.
Among the gardens Piet has designed are the Dromparken in Enkoping, Sweden; two great borders at the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley; and private gardens in various countries. The garden he designed with Arne Maynard for the Chelsea 2000 Flower Show won the Best Garden Award. In 2002, he was asked to design the Gardens of Remembrance at The Battery, New York.
Robert Israel
Set and Costume Designer
An elected fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, Robert Israel has created environments for many of the world's great opera companies. For the 1996 world premiere of Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas at the Houston Grand Opera, Israel created the sets which were later seen at Los Angeles and Seattle. Other theater and opera companies he has worked with include the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vienna Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Bavarian State Opera and English National Opera. His costume drawings for Glass' Satyagraha are part of the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Recent productions include Berg's Lulu in Japan, Britten's Peter Grimes in Zurich, and, at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2006, Israel will design a new production of Verdi's Macbeth for Seattle Opera. |
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