Kathryn Gustafson brings over 25 years of distinguished practice to Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. Her award-winning work can be found throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East. 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 internationally published.

Artist's Statement
"This original pencil sketch depicts the landscape design for a private residence. The terraced landscape, reminiscent of a cubist collage, references the home owner’s extensive modern art collection and aids the transition from the residence above to the low lying landscape below. The design maintains and enhances majestic existing pin trees giving an overall strong composition of verticals and horizontal planes. Activated by the interior living spaces, the social upper terrace is designed to host intimate dinners and formal galas. Held by a grand scale ramp, an infinity edge pool creates a horizon line for the upper terrace, as it wraps around one side of the house. Submerged in the ruffled canopy of the woods, the lower landscape is passive with sculpted lawns and a bound water garden."