For over 25 years, Karen Kiest has been providing landscape architectural and recreational planning services to a wide variety of public and private clients. She has gained a wide recognition for her ability to translate the Client’s interests into outdoor spaces that are sensitive to detail and material use, appropriate to place, and distinctive in visual form. Through innovative design and program solutions, excellent communication, and efficient use of resources, she consistently demonstrates the ability to make what some consider “common improvements” unique without burdening the established budget.Ms. Kiest graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Biology, and went on to receive a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Since that time, Karen Kiest has worked as a landscape architect on projects throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Asia. In the United States, she has completed planning and design work in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, California, Hawaii, New York, Massachusetts and Maine. She is a registered landscape architect in Washington, California, Alaska and British Columbia.