Barbara Swift

Firm: Swift Company, LLC, Seattle
Education: BLA, University of Washington
ASLA Chapter: Washington
Category: Works

Barbara Swift's landscape and urban design practice produces designs that range from wildlands restoration to carefully crafted urban projects embedded with subtle reference to history and culture. Her work reflects an elegantly minimalism that responds to the demands of daily life. In 1973 she developed an independent study program in Kyoto, Japan that focused on traditional landscape architecture and rigorous study of calligraphy and sumi. She established Swift Company in 1982 as a platform for her pioneering work.

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