Michael Brown PLA
Licensed Landscape Architect WA. CA. ID. IL.
Michael@6bworkshop.com
Michael is a professional licensed landscape architect, planner, and graphic illustrator specializing in design visualization and constructability for public, private, residential gardens, and urban landscapes.
Michael's works include designing and managing a wide range of award-winning projects in the San Francisco and Seattle markets. Projects include Amazon’s South Lake Union headquarters, Seattle Center Artist at Play Playground, West Edge Seattle condos, 200 Occidental Weyerhaeuser rooftop, and multiple custom residential landscapes along the west coast.
EDUCATION
Colorado State University - 2010
Licensed Landscape Architect - Washington State, California, Idaho, and Illinois.
Shaunta Butler
Landscape Designer + Educator
Shaunta@6bworkshop.com
Shaunta is a designer and educator. She grew up in Boise, ID, and holds degrees from Colorado State University and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She has exhibited, practiced, and taught in Europe, Asia, and North America. Her experience covers wide-ranging territory including k-12 design education, undergraduate + graduate curriculum design and instruction, art, creative strategy, trend forecasting, urban design, installations, fabrication, multimedia design, brand identity, film, videography, virtual reality, augmented immersive design, sustainable sites, and landscape architecture.
EDUCATION
Harvard University Graduate School of Design - 2015
Colorado State University - 2011
Lauren Iversen
Landscape Architect + Educator
Lauren@6bworkshop.com
Lauren is an experienced landscape architect passionate about creating places that spark joy and connect people to nature. A multi-faceted designer, she brings work spanning the public and private sectors throughout Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, serving clients in K-12, higher education, low-income housing, parks and recreation, and residential design.
Her background as an elementary teacher gives her a rare designer-educator perspective, shaping outdoor learning spaces that work as well for teachers as they do for students. She also brings deep plant knowledge of the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest ecosystems and crafts gardens that reflect each owner's style and hold up to how they live and maintain their space.
EDUCATION
Master’s in Landscape Architecture - University of Washington
Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction - University of Nevada Las Vegas
Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture - Iowa State University
PLA in Washington State
6B is a cross-disciplinary team that shares a passion for public spaces. The multi-disciplinary duo of Mike Brown and Shaunta Butler's practice focuses on design interventions that are grounded in their ecological, economic, and social context. Brown + Butler met in 2007 while landscape architecture students at Colorado State. Today they have 28 years of combined experience and a firm that focuses on positive change through sustainable design.