Julie Parrett, RLA

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Julie Parrett, RLA

Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington

As a registered landscape architect, Julie has professional experience developing award-winning and visionary large-scale public sites and urban planning projects as well as intimate neighborhood parks. As Design Director for the People’s Waterfront Coalition (PWC), she developed an award-winning proposal for re-envisioning Seattle’s downtown waterfront without the Alaskan Way Viaduct as a dynamic water’s edge with parks, beaches, recreation paths, event space and an urban street integrated into a functional shore ecology, and a transportation solution that supports a sustainable and livable future city. Julie was previously a principal with Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture where she served as project manager for the Olympic Sculpture Park, an award-winning urban park on Seattle downtown waterfront. She holds a MLA from the University of Pennsylvania, BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia and was a Fellow with CHORA Institute of Architecture and Urbanism in London. Additionally, Julie currently sits on the Seattle Design Commission and Seattle’s Public Art Advisory Council.