Susan Olmsted
Susan Olmsted is an architect and landscape architect with Mithun, a multi-disciplinary firm focused on integrated design leadership of a sustainable world. Her interdisciplinary insight enables her to keenly envision the dialogue between architectural and landscape elements, to leverage a site's quintessential assets in developing a placed-based environmental response, and to facilitate meaningful experiences.
In addition to her work at Mithun, Susan is an occasional guest lecturer and juror at the University of Washington and a board member for Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks, an organization focused on advocacy and preservation of Seattle's interconnected system of historic parks and boulevards. Her project experience includes the Tenaya Lake Restoration Plan in Yosemite National Park, the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans, the West Campus Historic Landscape Preservation Master Plan for the Washington State Capitol, Riverwoods Environmental Education Center in Corbin, Kentucky, and Kitsap SEED, a sustainable energy and economic development incubator facility for the Port of Bremerton.