HOLLY SELVIG, Designer
Ms. Selvig comes to the field of landscape architecture with an extensive background in the natural sciences. Having received her Master in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley, Ms. Selvig approaches design as an exercise in encouraging cultural and social health while promoting ecological systems and wise resource use. Her work managing aquatic and riparian habitat restoration for the Colorado River Indian Tribes is emblematic of the imaginative problem solving she employs for each project. Ms. Selvig specializes in habitat restoration, master planning, brownfield redevelopment, public park design, learning landscapes, and climate appropriate planting design.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Bay Meadows Redevelopment
Duboce Park
Stevenson School
Willows Community School
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Berkeley
Planting Design, Teaching Assistant
San Francisco Garden Club / University of California, Berkeley
Student Design Competition, Juror
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
2004 Master of Landscape Architecture
University of South Carolina Honors College
2000 BS in Biology and Environmental Studies
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2010 - Present, Advisory Council: San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
2007-2009 ASLA Northern California Chapter: Executive Committee Director
2006 ASLA NCC Honor Award in Analysis, Research, Planning, and Communication
2003 UC Berkeley Department of Landscape Architecture Wurster Courtyard Design/Build Competition, First Place
2003 San Francisco Garden Club Student Design Competition Winner
1996 University of South Carolina Palmetto Fellow