Kathryn Gustafson (born 1951) is an American landscape architect.

Her work includes the Gardens

of the Imagination in Terrasson, France; a city square in Évry, France; and the Diana, Princess of
Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. She has won awards and prizes including the
Millennium Garden Design Competition. She is known for her ability to create sculptural forms, using
earth, grass, stone and water.[1]

Early life
Gustafson was born and grew up in Yakima, Washington in 1951,[1] her father was a
heart surgeon.[2] The basis of her designs comes from her memories of past settings.
The region around Yakima is a desert-like plateau surrounded by mountains. At the age
of 18, Gustafson attended the University of Washington in Seattle, where she
studied applied arts for about a year. She then moved to New York City to attend
the Fashion Institute of Technology. After graduating from the Fashion Institute,
Gustafson moved to Paris to be a fashion designer. Gustafson turned to landscape
design. She was educated at the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage in Versailles,
where she graduated in 1979.

Design work
Gustafson’s work is predominantly civic, institutional, and corporate, including parks,
gardens and community spaces. Her award-winning projects
include Westergasfabriek Culture Park in Amsterdam, Diana, Princess of Wales
Memorial Fountain in London, Bay East and Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Recent
projects include Valencia Parque Central, the Novartis Campus in Basel and Marina
One in Singapore.
She has become known for her creations of sculptural forms. Her work has been
compared with the designs of landscape architect Isamu Noguchi

Firm
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol was established in Seattle and founded by Gustafson, Jennifer
Guthrie, and Shannon Nichol.

Gustafson Porter + Bowman, founded by Gustafson and Neil Porter in 1997, is situated in
London. The firm has international projects in the UK, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

highly regarded landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson. With practices in both London and
Seattle, her firms' work is truly international, with projects in the USA, Europe, the Middle
East and South East Asia. Kathryn has spent the last thirty years working on a diverse body
of projects. These works have been described as groundbreaking and as contemporary
designs that incorporate the sculptural, sensual qualities that are fundamental to the human
experience of landscape. Examples of Kathryn's work include The National Museum of
African American History and Culture, the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park, Chicago,
Westergasfabriek Park, Amsterdam and the Diana Memorial in London.