Joanie Walbert
ASLA, PLA
Senior Associate
Joanie Walbert came to landscape architecture through a pursuit of architecture and an interest in its impacts on human psychology and culture. Having studied architecture as an undergraduate, she broadened her studies to include landscape architecture at the graduate level. The science and systems-thinking inherent to landscape architecture and its humility in space-making was what led her to solely pursue landscape architecture.
Joanie is driven to understand the profession and the practice from multiple perspectives. She enjoys learning through a project from sketch to construction and carrying gained knowledge forward. Recently, Joanie has been invigorated to collaborate with practitioners in arboriculture and stream restoration in designing nuanced and sensitive projects that infill into existing ecological systems and learning how to best implement these projects with a construction team.
Joanie has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and dual Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. With an intrepid sense of wanderlust, Joanie has traveled extensively from her native Connecticut and has studied in St. Louis, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Tbilisi. She loves the Pacific Northwest for its untamed landscapes, picturesque byways, and the unbridled potential for spontaneous adventure.