Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture
| Charles Anderson | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 59–60) Valley City, North Dakota, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | BLA Washington State University MLA Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | "WERK.us". |
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Charles Morris Anderson (born 1957) is a landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Principal of the Phoenix-based landscape architecture firm WERK.us, a continuation of his practice of the Seattle-based firm Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture.
Anderson is recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects for combining nature, community needs, and art into his designs, emphasizing sustainability, indigenous plants and urban ecology.
Anderson's influences and contemporaries include Peter Walker, affiliated with the team involved in the World Trade Center Memorial project; Richard Haag, famous for his Gas Works Park project in Seattle; and Cornelia Oberlander, a Canadian landscape architect renown for the creative use of native plants on landmark projects like the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.
Anderson also had special interest in the work of Robert Smithson, an influential artist of the 1960s and 1970s, James Turrell, a contemporary artist who focuses on light and space, and Julie Bargmann, who focuses on regenerative landscapes.
Charles Anderson, FASLA in 2014 reopened his firm, Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture of Seattle, as WERK.us in Phoenix, Arizona. A feature project in his office is The Hellinikon Project in Athens Greece. This is one of the largest projects in Europe and Includes Metropolitan Park of 500 acres, 200 acres of additional open space and a mile of coastline. Projects are national and international projects as well, including, Haiti and Vietnam.
Other notable projects by Charles Anderson include providing landscape design for the Anchorage Museum expansion, as well as Seattle’s 8.5 acres (3.4 ha) Olympic Sculpture Park,Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, and Manhattan’s Arthur Ross Terrace.
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