Michelle Arab, Principal

The relationship and integration of architecture, landscape architecture and art is a primary focus in Michelle’s work. During her six years of experience with CALA, she has worked on several institutional and civic parks and plazas including the Anchorage Museum of History and Art Expansion, Bellingham Art and Children’s Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park, as well as multiple neighborhood parks and residential projects.

While focusing on public urban projects, she has explored landscape architecture as a practice that incorporates innovative landscape and ecological strategies as a framework and model for design. At the base of this approach are the fundamentals of design - the physical and spatial qualities created. The challenge is to create places that are articulate, site specific and well-crafted while remaining adaptive and artful.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
Arboretum of the Cascades, WA
Chapel in the Woods, Bellingham, WA
Bellingham Art and Children’s Museum, Bellingham, WA
Druids Glen, Covington, WA
500 Area of Discovery Park, Seattle, WA
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Residence, Seattle, WA
Tables of Water, Seattle, WA
Trillium Projects, Seattle, WA
Zhongkai Sheshan Villas, Shanghai, China

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

Registered Landscape Architect:
Washington

EDUCATION
MLA, 2001
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

MArch, 2001
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

BA, Art History and Visual Arts, 1990
Barnard College, New York, NY

EXHIBITIONS + AWARDS
“Extended Phenotype”
Sustaining Change on the American Farm
Maryhill Museum of Art, WA, 2006

“Epiphyte”
Pritchard Park group exhibition
Bainbridge Arts and Humanities Council
Bainbridge Island, WA, 2005

“Anthology”
Art Outside
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
Port Angeles, WA, 2004

“Make Room For Murder,” group exhibition
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, 2004

“Alliteration,”
Art in the Meadow group exhibition
Bainbridge Arts and Humanities Council
Bainbridge Island, WA, 2003

“Amphibious Natures,” solo exhibition
Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council
Ketchikan, AK, 2003

“Discarded” Blurred group exhibition
Center on Contemporary Art
Seattle, WA, 2002

Honorable Mention
UIA Water and Architecture competition
2001