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IAIN ROBERTSON

Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture
Adjunct Associate Professor, Environmental Horticulture & Urban Forestry
Faculty, Urban Design Certificate Program

348F Gould Hall
Box 355734
Seattle WA 98195-5734
iainmr@u.washington.edu
206.543.9246
iain robertson | curriculum vita | research | projects | publications | courses taught | theses advised

RESEARCH

Professor Robertson's research focuses on plants as a medium for design. Interpreting this in the broadest terms, his interests include the unique spatial and temporal experiences that plants contribute to design. He has participated in the planning and design of arboreta in several western states and the design of specific plant collections in several public gardens. Currently he is developing a design for Washington Park Arboretum's holly (Ilex) collection, which may grow to as many as 120 different species.

His interests include teaching creativity in traditional studio-based design education and how techniques and methods used to cultivate creativity in other disciplinary settings.

The following PowerPoint presentation illustrates his interest in local, ordinary landscapes and how these may be understood, interpreted and, most important, experienced.

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GARDENS: Growing Certainty in a World of Growing Uncertainty (1 MB) (images)
Shaping Social Spaces With Plants (.5 MB)
Space Manipulation--convex and concave space- lecture notes in pdf form
Design: Growing Into Place or Place-Making? (8.3 MB)
The Power of Personality for People, Plants, Places, Projects and Public Horticulture (17.8 MB)
(Written Paper in PDF 0.4 MB)