Kathryn McFadden Rivard, LLA, ASLA

                                      Landscape Architect

 

 

LICENSURE                          State of Minnesota - #41742,

American Society of Landscape Architects- Minnesota Chapter

                                    State of Wisconsin - #507-014

 

EDUCATION                         MLA - College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

                                                University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Landscape Architecture

BS - Central Michigan University

 

PROFESSIONAL                   2004- present:            Sanders, Wacker, Bergly, Inc.   St. Paul, Minnesota

            EXPERIENCE                                    Landscape Architect – Responsibilities include project planning, schematic design, design development, construction documents, presentation graphics, project management, cost estimating and specification preparation.

 

2002 - 2004:   McFadden Rivard Design Ltd.  Minneapolis & Vancouver, BC

Landscape Architect -- Residential, commercial and urban design practice and consultation.

 

 2002 - 2003:  City of Surrey Department of Parks Recreation and Culture

                                                            Surrey, British Columbia

Landscape Architect – Responsibilities included park planning, vehicular circulation planting design.

 

2000 - 2001:  Cuningham Group Architects,   Minneapolis

Designer II, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Studio – Responsibilities included conceptual design through construction documents for projects throughout the firm including Education, Worship and Hospitality projects as well as Urban Design.

 

1998 - 2000:  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Research Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture—Responsibilities included site design, precedent studies, sit analysis, research document design and preparation.

 

1997 - 1998:     Cuningham Group Architects,  Minneapolis

Designer I, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Studio—Responsibilities included site analysis, graphic production, site design, precedent research, construction documents.

 

1997:   Alan Whidby Designs, Landscape Architecture  Minnetonka, MN

Intern --   Responsibilities included assisting the Landscape Architect with base mapping, drawing production.

 

1996:    Damon Farber Associates, Landscape Architects - Minneapolis

Intern – Responsibilities included general office tasks, base map preparation, drafting, graphic production.

 

1995:    Coen + Stumpf + Associates, Landscape Architects, Minneapolis Intern—Responsibilities included general office, drafting and graphic production. 

 

PROJECT          Education:  Watertown Mayer Elementary School (LEED silver candidate), Watertown, MN

EXPERIENCE                          Watertown Mayer Senior High School (LEED silver candidate), Watertown, MN

Metropolitan State University – Toro Ecological Garden, St. Paul

Minneapolis Community and Technical College Library Plaza, Minneapolis (with Cuningham Group)

Meadowbrook School, Golden Valley, MN (with Cuningham Group)

 

Urban Design/Planning:  City of Benson Master Plan, Benson, MN;  Brookfield 2020 Master Plan (with Cuningham Group); Crosscroft at Evermoor, Farmington, MN (with Cuningham Group); Post-Industrial Environmental Corridor, St. Paul (with University of Minnesota); St. Paul Green Infrastructure Study (with University of Minnesota); St. Paul Central Corridor Study (with University of Minnesota); Grey Cloud Island Master Plan (with Cuningham Group).

                   

Parks and Recreation:   Forest Lake Lakeside Park, Forest Lake, MN;  Doar Park, New Richmond, WI; City of Owatonna, Straight River Park;  Prairie Dawn Park, Norwood-Young-America; 

 

Environmental Projects:  Watertown Mayer Elementary School (LEED silver candidate), Watertown, MN; Watertown Mayer Senior High School (LEED silver candidate), Watertown, MN; Metropolitan State University – Toro Ecological Garden, St. Paul; Children’s Home Society, St. Paul (with Cuningham Group); Watershed Land Design, research (with University of Minnesota);  Big Sandy Lake Shoreland Revegetation Project (with University of Minnesota);

                       

Awards            1997                 ASLA Honor Award

1996-1997         Tuition Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Department of Landscape Architecture

1996                 Design Potential Award, University of Minnesota, Department of Landscape Architecture

1996                 Harriet Wimmer Scholarship, Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington, D.C.

1996                 Scholarship Award, Minnesota Chapter of Federated Garden Clubs of America

1995-96            Tuition Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Department of Landscape Architecture

1994-95            Edmund Phelps Fellowship, Honor Award granted a first year entering professional graduate student.