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• Landscape Architect

Allison came to landscape architecture with a background in the arts. After years of abstracting and reworking images of the landscape as an artist, landscape architecture emerged as a field that would allow her to understand the ways in which landscape is shaped by, and for, its inhabitants in a more comprehensive way.

Since completing her Masters of Landscape Architecture at UBC, her passion for working with the landscape has brought her to work on projects that range in scale and site. While she thrives working through the compositional issues of smaller spaces, her collaborative nature has lent to working within large multidisciplinary teams to understand regional issues affecting the landscape, particularly coastal adaptation.

Through her research and professional work, including Phase 1 and 2 of Surrey’s Coastal Flood Adaptation Plan and the City of Vancouver’s Coastal Adaptation Plan for the Fraser River, Allison has gained a thorough understanding of the challenges facing coastal communities as a result of climate change and the multilayered role that landscape architecture can play in addressing these challenges.

She is currently working on Seaspan’s North Vancouver campus wayfinding and landscape treatments, Boundary Road Pump Station, and the Art Phillips Park at Burrard SkyTrain Station.