Kathryn Gustafson

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Kathryn Gustafson (born 1951) is an American landscape architect and artist. She was born in Washington State and was educated at the University of Washington in Seattle, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles where she received her diploma in 1979.

Kathryn’s award-winning landscapes and structures can be found throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Her diverse span of prominent works, ranging from a tenth of an acre to 500 acres in size, are known as ground-breaking, contemporary designs that intuitively incorporate the sculptural, sensual qualities that are fundamental to the human experience of landscape. Two partner offices, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd in Seattle and Gustafson Porter in London, continue to evolve the design approach of Gustafson’s work into new contexts of time, culture, and nature. 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 in both offices 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 Hall Opera House, and The Garden of Forgiveness in Beirut, Lebanon.