Principal Profile

Andy Albright, ASLA

Owner & Licensed Landscape Architect

With over sixteen years as a design professional helping clients realize their vision, Andy is skilled at leading multidisciplinary teams that find creative solutions and have fun in the process. Andy emphasizes the role of communication, both verbal and graphic, in any process and uses these skills to consistently manage projects that exceed client expectations within time and budget constraints.

Andy’s passion for improving quality of life through planning and design has led him from visual communications to landscape architecture and, most recently, to small business ownership. As an award-winning graphic designer, he specialized in identity and branding, interactive media, animation and 3-dimensional modeling. He continues to use these skills on a daily basis to explore and communicate new ideas. This training has also given Andy a unique ability to think in four dimensions as he intrinsically considers how time and motion are an integral part of any design.

Andy began his career as a landscape architect in Indiana and in 2005 launched a Wisconsin branch office for an Indianapolis-based landscape architecture firm. In February 2009, he founded Plandesign LLC, a purposely small, single discipline studio with large ideas. Andy has become a leader in advocating for safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more context-sensitive site design practices.

Andy is dedicated to delivering the highest level of client service by forming truly collaborative partnerships, based on mutual respect and earned trust.

Education and Licensure

Licensed Landscape Architect, Wisconsin #541
Master of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude, Visual Communication, Northern Illinois University

Service

State of Wisconsin Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers & Land Surveyors, 2011 - present
City of Sun Prairie Community Development Authority Advisory Board, 2009 - present
Downtown Madison Inc. (DMI), Economic Development Committee2009 - present
WPRA Green Task Force, 2009 - present

Publications & Speaking Engagements

Sustainable Sites, AIA WI Lunch & Learn, March 2010
Green?, IMPACT, WI Park & Recreation Assoc., Spring 2010
WPRA Green Score Card, IMPACT, WI Park & Recreation Assoc., Winter 2009

Awards

IMPACT: Contributor of the Year Award 2010 for article “How Green is Your Agency?”

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
American Institute of Architects (AIA), Professional Affiliate
Wisconsin Park & Recreation Association (WPRA)
Wisconsin Green Building Alliance (WGBA)

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