Katharine Logan
Writing about architecture and landscape design
that contributes to the vital issues of our time
About
I'm an award-winning writer on design, sustainability, and well-being in the built environment. I write regularly for Architectural Record (where I'm a contributing editor and where my work formed part of the magazine's 2016 Jesse H. Neal Award-winning portfolio) and Landscape Architecture Magazine (where my work won the 2022 Bradford Williams Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects), among others.I hold a graduate professional degree in architecture and, as a designer and project manager, have provided leadership to a varied set of building types and scales, including a Green Building of the Year Award winner from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canada Green Building Council.If you have a project or story you think I'd be interested in, I'd be happy to hear from you!
Selected work
Pike Place Market Expansion
Architectural Record 2018.03
Burial at 64° North
Landscape Architecture Magazine | 2018.02
It's a Dump--No Really!
Architectural Record | 2018.02
Amazon Spheres Opens in Seattle
Architectural Record | 2018.01
Move It! Designing schools to increase children's activity levels
Architectural Record | 2018.01
Hear! Hear! Four new community spaces raise the acoustic bar
Architectural Record | 2017.12
Healthcare, Light and Breezy: window on naturally ventilated hospitals
Architectural Record | 2017.07
Work Globally, Design Locally:
How green design is sustaining regional divers
Building Green Report | 2017.02
Communities Thrive on Clean Dirt:
A new paradigm in brownfield
remediation
Planning | 2017.02
Safe School Principles:
Lessons in security from three new schools
Architectural Record | 2017.01
A Room With a View:
Biophilic design in the hospitality sector
Architectural Record | 2016.12
Road to Resilience: Design for a
high-risk region
USGBC+ | 2016.09
Protect Your Spec: you've optimized
your project's materials for health,
now get them into the building
Environmental Building News | 2016.07
Sweating the Small Stuff: Materials and health
Architectural Record | 2016.06
Leafed Out: West 8 brings Canada out to a stretch of prime Toronto waterfront
Landscape Architecture Magazine | 2016.05
Pushing the [Brick] Envelope
Architectural Record | 2015.11
For the Birds: Building design can reduce fatal collisions
Architectural Record | 2015.10
Go Wild, Oregon Child: Nature-based play areas are pulling kids back outside
Landscape Architecture Magazine | 2015.03
A River Returns: Rewilding the Elwha River
Landscape Architecture Magazine | 2014.06
Keep It Clean: Philadelphia's softer solution to rainwater management
GreenSource | 2013.11/12