Angela Danadjieva
Angela Danadjieva is a landscape architect who founded the multidisciplinary design firm Danadjieva & Koenig Associates with her partner Thomas Koenig. She is well known for her work with Lawrence Halprin & Associates, including the Ira Keller Fountain in Portland, Oregon and Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington.
Early life and education
Danadjieva was born in 1931 in
In 1963 Danadjieva and her partner Ivan Tzvetin entered an international design competition in Cuba, and placed second for their design of a plaza, museum, and monument. After this, Danadjieva became increasingly interested in architecture, and went to study at the
Career in the United States
In 1965, while Danadjieva was at the École des Beaux-Arts, she and Ivan Tzvetin won first prize in an international design competition for the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza. While the project was never built, this brought Danadjieva to the United States. She met Lawrence Halprin soon after, and joined his firm Halprin and Associates as a project designer. There, from 1967 to 1976, she led more than twenty urban design and city-planning projects with the firm, including the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, the Jewish Home of San Francisco, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Notably, she was lead designer on the Ira Keller Fountain Park in Portland, Oregon, and Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington.[4]
After leaving Halprin and Associates in 1976, Danadjieva founded Danadjieva & Koenig Associates with architect Thomas Koenig. Their major projects include the
Danadjieva maintains her practice with Koenig today in Tiburon, California.
Major works
- Ira Keller Fountain Park – Portland, Oregon
- Freeway Park – Seattle, Washington
- Thomas Polk Park - Charlotte, North Carolina
- Washington State Capitol – Olympia, Washington
- Jewish Home of San Francisco – San Francisco, California
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – Richmond, Virginia
- White River State Park – Indianapolis, Indiana
- James River Park System – Richmond, Virginia
- Freeway Park Extension – Seattle, Washington
References
- ^ "Angela Danadjieva remains an unsung luminary of landscape architecture". Archpaper.com. 2019-03-15. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
- ^ Gragg, Randy (June 5, 2005). "Sight Lines; A Bridge Brainstorm". The Oregonian. Advance Publications. p. D03.
- ^ a b "Pioneer: Angela Danadjieva". tclf.org. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ Schurch, Thomas (April 1988). "Angela Danadjieva: Reshaping the American Urban Center". Landscape Architecture. No. April 1988. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
External links
- A Woman, a Sculpture, a Park, 2007 article in The Stranger (newspaper)