![]() ![]() ![]() It’s clear that what Van Valkenburgh most cares about in this park-perhaps the most prominent project of its kind under way in the United States-is people and their daily experiences. ![]() On a nice day, this place draws thousands.” You see those benches lining most of the path? All two miles of them were occupied. And all these plants, chosen because they could tolerate salt, survived after Hurricane Sandy covered them with 30 inches of salt water.” “Within a week after we finished building this wetland, four types of ducks were using it. I love to see them coming down the sidewalks through toney Brooklyn Heights in their soccer clothes.” And the players are speaking in over 50 languages. “In good weather, these soccer fields are used 18 hours a day. On a walk through the new Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP), which his firm designed, he effuses in numerical terms: ![]() He is much too boyish and earnest for that. But a hipster he isn’t and wouldn’t want to be. A professor and designer he is-the Eliot professor in practice of landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), and probably the most celebrated landscape architect in America. His goal in life as well as business is to put others first.With his graying red hair going every which way and his designer black clothes rumpled, Michael Van Valkenburgh, 61, looks like a contradiction: an absent-minded hipster professor. Having spent his time away from Drake’s in a ‘boots on the ground’ capacity, Tim has fostered a love for the operational/production side of landscape business, as well as the design/sales. Since college, Tim has spent 13 of his 17 years with Drake’s 7 Dees and has ‘set roots’ in anticipation of long-term growth at the family-focused company. Between soccer, football, cheerleading, girl scouts and other extra-curricular activities… the Sellin family are heavily involved in their community and church family. Now making his home in Sandy, Oregon – Tim and his wife are raising two happy and healthy kiddos and 4 fur-babies. Volleyball courts design landscape arch professional#Graduating with honors in 2004, he returned home to establish his professional career. Inspired by our local beauty ranging: the Mt Hood National Forest to salty, sea spray of Cannon Beach, the arid high-desert of Central Oregon to the rugged terrain of Steens Mountain – Tim sought higher education at the University of Idaho in their Landscape Architecture department. Tim Sellin Senior Design + Production Managerīorn and raised in the Portland Metro Area… Tim has had an appreciation for the outdoors from a young age. In his spare time, Drake enjoys camping, water and snow skiing, reading, and of course, gardening. Drake and Lynn have two wonderful daughters, two talented son-in-laws, and seven grandchildren. Together, he and Lynn received the Farm Bureau President’s award in 1999 for their service and dedication to agriculture in the state of Oregon. Additionally, Drake serves on the Board of Directors for the Portland Japanese Gardens, widely regarded as one of the seven best Japanese gardens outside of Japan.ĭrake is married to former Oregon Speaker of the House, Lynn Snodgrass. He later expanded into the design/build side of the industry, allowing him to combine his passion for plants with his love of family by maximizing the quality of family time spent outdoors.ĭrake is co-founder of the Oregon Landscape Contractors Association and is a Landscape Industry Certified Manager (LICM)-a designation that less than two percent of landscapers have attained. He opened Drake’s 7 Dees in 1974, while earning degrees in Business and Horticulture from Oregon State University. A lifelong Oregon resident, Drake has been passionate about plants since childhood, beginning with propagating and growing flowers at his grandfather’s nursery. ![]()
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