Male, US, born 1938
Associated with the firms network
Haag, Richard, Associates, Incorporated, Site Planners, Landscape Architects; Hanna / Olin, Limited, Landscape Architects; Olin Partnership
Résumé
Partner, Hanna/Olin, Limited, Landscape Architects, Philadelphia, PA. Principal, Olin Partnership, Landscape Architects, Philadelphia, PA.
Teaching
Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1976-1986; Chair, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture, Cambridge, MA; Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Professional Service
Olin belonged to the Executive Board of the Friends of the Market preservation group before 1963.
Professional Awards
Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, 1972; Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998; awarded the Wyck-Strickland Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, 1999; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA); Fellow, American Academy of Rome, Rome Italy; John Simon Guggenheim Fellow; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Design, 2008; Honorary Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY; numerous ASLA project awards, 1980s-2010s. ASLA Medal Recipient, 2011.
College
B.Arch., Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA.
Relocation
Born in Marshfield, WI, in the middle of the state, Olin spent his childhood in AK. He came to the University of Washington, Seattle, where he studied with the great Richard Haag (b. 1923). Following graduation, Olin landed jobs in landscape architecture firms in Seattle, New York, NY, and London, UK. He made a transition to academia in the mid-1970s, working at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. In addition to his teaching positions Olin has managed a worldwide landscape architecture practice based in Philadelphia.
PCAD id: 725
Name | Date | City | State |
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ARCO Plaza, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA | 1972-1973 | Los Angeles | CA |
Brooklyn Nets Stadium Project, Brooklyn, NY | Brooklyn | NY | |
Pershing Square, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA | 1992-1994 | Los Angeles | CA |
Security Pacific National Bank (SPNB), Headquarters Building #2, Los Angeles, CA | 1972-1974 | Los Angeles | CA |
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mission Bay Campus, Land Use Diagram, San Francisco, CA | 1998 | San Francisco | CA |
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Allen, Kenneth S., Library, Seattle, WA | 1988-1990 | Seattle | WA |
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), North Campus Housing, Seattle, WA | 2019 |