Charles A. Warsinske

Here in Washington, we just passed legislation to upgrade our license from a Title Act to a Practice Act. We have been working with the legislature for 5 or 6 years to get this done. The senators and respresentatives had a hard enough time understanding the relationship between landscape architects and health, safety and welfare. To throw history…[Read more]

I’m in Seattle and have had a small office here for 15 years. Prior to that I worked 22 years for larger, multidisciplinary firms. In that 37 years, I have never seen the economy this bad for all design disciplines. In 1972 when I received by BS in Landscape Architecture, they were turning the lights out in Seattle due to a big Boeing layoff. I…[Read more]

I recently completed a parking lot for a ferry terminal on Lummi Island near Bellingham, Washington. The island residents are really into sustainable development so we designed the parking lot for storm water to sheet flow into rain gardens and bioswales prior to release into the coastal waters. They also encouraged us to use plants such as…[Read more]