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• Greenroof Workshop
• Harding Home
• Lavandar Farm

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Website

http://www.harrisonarchitects.com/

Email

info@harrisonarchitects.com

Address

1932 First Ave. Ste 200
Seattle , WA
98101 Map

Phone

206-956-0883

People

• Rob Harrison
  AIA - Principal

  I have over 29 years of experience as a design professional, including 22 years as principal of my own firm. I grew up in a small town in northeastern Ohio and studied architecture at the University of Toronto. From my first project onward, my school work centered on sustainable design. My thesis (with my teacher Alberto Perez-Gomez) was inspired by my summer in Seattle in 1978. Titled "The Return of the Seasons", it was a landscape art project in High Park in Toronto that explored ways of connecting architecture with the cycle of the seasons. After graduation from University of Toronto in 1979 I moved to New York City and pursued parallel careers in architecture and music. I worked as a draftsperson for Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, for residential architect Alfredo DeVido, and recorded and performed music with Glenn Branca, Sussan Deyhim, and Christian Marclay among others. In 1984 I opened my own design office. My practice in New York included high end residential interiors and commercial office renovations. I returned to Seattle in 1990 to pursue work in line with my values. In 1992 I opened my own office again, dedicated exclusively to green architecture.

• N. Kim Pham
  Project Architect

  I have come to see a building as a living organism. It is in this aspect of living that a structure sustains and renews itself with time. A successful building will not only integrate all its diverse systems, that is, structure, heating and cooling and so on, but also its dreams and desires, as well as its constraints and limitations, into a coherent and uncompromising whole that all can be friends with, that all can interact with and continuously discover. The house is not only comprised of its physical realities but also its metaphysical ones: It is a vessel to hold our experiences.

  The design process to me then is one of careful listening, of discovering this life force. Design always stays within the realm of the measurable but longs for the immeasurable; the ground of the form and the formless.

• Matt Wasse
  Project Architect

  I came to the Northwest from the South in 1997 to attend the University of Washington and embark on my career as an architect. At the time Seattle was, to me, a big city and I’ll never forget sitting on the roof of Architecture Hall with a classmate looking out over the cut to Lake Union and seeing downtown in the distance. The fabric of the city twisted and turned like a blanket dominating yet still yielding to what was underneath. Hills and valleys framed and funneled views that seemed to shift before my eyes. So much to see and learn, I was tense with excitement.

  That’s what I cherish about architecture, it makes me look. Good architecture utilizing practices of sustainable design has to be observant and notice things. A process where design is more about learning than creating, resulting in a final thesis/building that is informed by it’s location and the desires of it’s inhabitants. Every project and every client teaches me something new and I will never tire of learning.

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