Virtual Chapter Meeting, October 16th, 7PM

Shannon Nichol has been practicing landscape architecture for 25 years in the Seattle-based firm she co-founded, GGN. While her design work in parks, gardens, and planning has ranged around the world, Shannon brings a localized approach strongly influenced by growing up on a Sumas Mountain logging road and watching the interactions between people, plants, and animals in Whatcom County’s recently-colonized landscape.

Shannon has leveraged GGN’s platform in the Pacific Northwest to facilitate more availability and use of native plants in our region’s built environment and, most recently, to foster the desire for native plants in residential gardeners. Shannon will cite several project examples in this talk, including Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Burke Museum’s Camas meadow, and several 100% native residential gardens in the Seattle area. She will also discuss GGN’s Meadowshop Initiative, which aims to bring aesthetically driven native gardens into more affordable and replicable residential contexts.

***This is a virtual Chapter Meeting. A Zoom link will be made available here on the WNPS site, please check back soon!

Biography:

Shannon Nichol, FASLA, PLA, LEED AP, Founding Principal, GGN

Shannon Nichol is a co-founder of GGN. Shannon stewards GGN’s distinct approach to design and collaboration, bringing curiosity, humility, humor, and deep creativity to all our projects and our studio.

Shannon’s designs – including San Francisco’s India Basin Waterfront Parks, the Lurie Garden in Chicago, and the Gates Foundation Campus – are widely recognized as distinct landforms and welcoming places embedded in local history, culture, and native ecologies. Shannon’s recent and current projects include the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center, and the Seattle Residence: Native Gardens.

Shannon is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (Seattle). She and her partners received the Smithsonian’s 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, and GGN received the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award. Shannon’s projects have been recognized with the ASLA National Awards of Excellence, ASLA and AIA Honor Awards, Tucker Design Awards, Great Places Awards from the Environmental Design Research Association, and Pacific Horticulture’s inaugural Design Futurist Award.