Arterra Landscape Architects

California Home & Design Home Tour

gretchen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:36:25 +0000

CH&D featured our “Gathering Table” project as one of their homes tours. Such a fun client and project – great to see it in the blogosphere of CH&D!

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curiously different

gretchen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:16:36 +0000

Curiously Different blog snapped some great photos of the shadows cast through our resin panels at the SF Flower and Garden Show.

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SF Gate’s One Dozen Garden Trends

gretchen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:11:53 +0000

Deb Wandell of SF Chronicle thinks our use of bold colors at the SF Flower & Garden Show is trend. We like that!

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SF Chronicle 2013 SF Flower & Garden Show

gretchen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:06:56 +0000

Laramie Treviño included several photos along with a nice review of our garden in her article about this years San Francisco Flower in Garden Show. We made the cover image for the Home and Garden section that weekend!

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Member Spotlight

gretchen — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:46:39 +0000

NAWBO San Francisco, (National Association of Women Business Owners) featured Kate in the Members Spotlight. Nice little spotlight for Arterra and Kate’s design influences. The link below will take you to the article.

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The Art of The Wood Fence

gretchen — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:13:02 +0000

Lise Funderburg wrote a inspiring article for the Winter 2012 Garden Design Magazine about wood fences. She featured ‘Contemporary Update’ as an example of using fences as a dramatic backdrops. Pick up an issue when you can and we will provide a link once the article is available on line.

All Aglow

gretchen — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:38:56 +0000

Sunset Magazine, November 2012 featured our ‘Contemporary Update’ in article about firepits. The story was expanded for the website and the link below will take you to Sunset’s page.

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Gretchen Whittier, Associate Partner, Landscape Architect, ASLA

gretchen — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:10:14 +0000

With a childhood filled with days of eating tomatoes and strawberries straight out of her mom’s organic garden, and assisting her father build brick fireplaces, becoming a landscape architect may have been inevitable for Gretchen.

A designer with Arterra since 2005, she believes in working with the natural landscape to create dynamic spaces that are comfortable and whimsical. Her design and environmental aesthetic extends to her home and garden, which is an eclectic blend of mid-century modern, found objects and re-fabricated furniture and materials.

Gretchen graduated from Phillips Academy Andover, then received a B.A. from University of Vermont, followed by a Certificate in Landscape Architecture. Outside of the office, Gretchen can often be found rummaging through salvage yards for the next great inspiration, planning elaborate birthday parties for friends, snowboarding or socializing kittens for the animal rescue group she volunteers for and is a board member of.

Garden within Walls

gretchen — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:38:44 +0000

Barbara P. Meister recently published a new book about vibrant courtyard gardens tucked behind walls and we do love the cover! This title is currently only available in German, but stay tuned for more books in this series that should be coming out in English.

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Cal Poly Alumni News

gretchen — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:25:46 +0000

Vera was selected as one of the Alumni to highlight in Cal Poly’s 2011-12 SLO Journal. Great images along with a write-up about our Sunset Idea House garden in the Mission District of San Francisco.

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