Landscape Dimensions of Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park –
by Charles Anderson (Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, Seattle and Napa)

ABSTRACT
Charles Anderson will discuss the design process for the sculpture park from a landscape architect's point of view. Weiss Manfredi Architects were lead designers for the project and had specific goals and objectives that were often quite different from the traditional role that a landscape architect brings to a project. These were rarely aesthetic issues, rather they were issues of comfort, material appropriateness, maintenance and user interface concerns. Charles will show photographs and process related images in a PowerPoint presentation to paint a picture of the philosophy that led to a wonderfully unique project.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPY
Charles Anderson, FASLA, has been a practicing landscape architect for over 20 years, crafting numerous award-winning projects that are recognized for their ability to integrate design, ecology and community needs including the Trillium Projects, a series of waterfront parks along Lake Washington and more recently the new Olympic Sculpture Park. His firm grounding in horticulture and knowledge of Northwest native plants forms the basis for an evolving body of work that highlights the transformative processes of ecological systems. His work has ranged from high-profile commissions at the Arthur Ross Terrace at New York’s American Museum of Natural History to smaller scale, yet no less important, neighborhood parks and urban ecological restorations. Each project, in its own way, reveals the essence of natural processes, creating the potential for ecological fertility and aesthetic sublimation while cultivating a spirited engagement with place.

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