Peter Olson is a landscape designer living, working, and playing in Eugene, Oregon. He hopes to push the bounds of urban ecological design and help design cities & towns to be resilient to climate change at all scales and for all its residents.
Peter is concurrently employed with Stangeland & Associates Landscape Architecture & Design and received his Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon in 2023. Since graduating, he has been teaching studio and media courses at the Landscape Architecture department at the University of Oregon as well as the newly-formed Environmental Design program.
Peter has a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His desire to join the world of landscape architecture comes from years of experience as a backpacking guide, where he introduced people to the outdoors and helped them see wilderness as a place of beauty and comfort rather than fear. Since it’s impossible to bring everyone to the wilderness, Peter desires to bring the wilderness to the city.
Climate change resiliency is a core value in every mode of Peter’s work. To him, the climate emergency is the disaster of this generation, and landscape architecture is a vehicle to radically change the social, material, and natural landscapes in hopes that we might mitigate this global catastrophe at local scales.
