Angela Danadjieva

Angela Danadjieva is an American landscape architect known for urban design and city-planning projects.

Early life and education

Danadjieva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated from Bulgaria’s State University in Sofia in 1960. She worked as a set designer in Bulgaria for 7 years before defecting to Paris. In Paris, she studied at the École des Beaux Arts,[1]

Career in the United States

Keller Fountain Park in Portland, Oregon

In 1965, Danadjieva and Ivan Tzvetin won first prize in an international design competition for the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza. She met Lawrence Halprin soon after, and joined his firm Halprin and Associates as a project designer. There, she was lead designer on projects including Keller Fountain Park in Portland, Oregon and Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington.[2]

After leaving Halprin and Associates in 1976, Danadjieva established a firm with architect Thomas Koenig, where major projects included White River State Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, a planning study for James River Park System in Richmond, Virginia, and an extension to Seattle’s Freeway Park.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gragg, Randy (June 5, 2005). "Sight Lines; A Bridge Brainstorm". The Oregonian. Advance Publications. p. D03.
  2. ↑ Schurch, Thomas (April 1988). "Angela Danadjieva: Reshaping the American Urban Center". Landscape Architecture (April 1988). Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Pioneer: Angela Danadjieva". tclf.org. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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