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NPA lecture with Barbara SwiftBeginning to Get It!Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 1 pm
Despite her vast and varied experience, Barbara admits she is just “Beginning to Get It!” On Sunday, January 18th she will enchant us with her warm and engaging personality and the passion she brings to each project, whether civic or residential, sharing with us her knowledge and vision of “landscapes that . . . connect us sensually through sight and sound, smell and touch.” She connects with gardeners of all ages and as past-chair of both the Seattle Art Commission and Design Commission appreciates the process of weaving good design, art and smart hardscape into the green spaces we so cherish. From her own personal garden in Ballard, designed to be “a wild urban refuge” of native plants, to the company’s latest commission, a Jeffersonian-modeled “village” on 100 acres of the University of Puget Sound campus in Tacoma, Barbara will explain how she strives to preserve original environments while choosing plants that will cohabitate in harmony – good design and planting principles that we can all take back to our own treasured gardens. |
Barbara Swift is the Firm Principal of Swift Company, Landscape Architects. They have been paramount in designing and facilitating many public landscapes throughout the Seattle area including projects for the Woodland Park Zoo, UW, Seattle Public Library System and Discovery Park. She collaborated with Kathryn Gustafson on the new Seattle City Hall landscape project and was called to service by the National Parks System for an ambitious makeover in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, where all materials used were original to the “hermetically sealed” site including the collection of native seeds and formulations for top soil and compost.