Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture
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Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture (CALA) is a Seattle-based landscape architecture firm. It was founded with the goal of creating places for civic expression which reveal ecological and social phenomena, processes, and relationships. In doing so, the studio continues the work which Charles Morris Anderson developed with Anderson and Ray, a firm he helped found in 1994. CALA’s principals bring over 40 years of professional experience in creating urban plazas and parks, major civic and institutional landscapes, urban planning, interpretive centers, and ecological and historic landscape restoration projects. While the primary focus area of the studio is the Pacific Northwest, recent projects have ranged from New York to California to Alaska.
The firm has an extensive record of award-winning multi-disciplinary park projects including over 25 community-based projects within the Seattle metropolitan area. Many of CALA's projects involve extensive public participation, including collaborations with community and neighborhood groups and public presentations. Recent neighborhood park projects include Roxhill Wetland and Bog Park in West Seattle and, the restoration of the 500 Area of Discovery Park, both of which received Merit Awards from the Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and improvements to Mineral Springs Park to enhance public access and use including a new art walk and gathering spaces. Examples of civic-scale projects include the 8.5 acre Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum on Seattle’s downtown waterfront and an urban plaza and park with water feature and ice skating rink for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art expansion project [1] in Anchorage, Alaska.
