Anne Hanenburg

Background

About Anne Hanenburg

Anne is a Principal with SPVV Landscape Architects. She has 22-years experience and expertise in healing garden and aging design. Prior to becoming a landscape architect she spent 16-years working in healthcare. Helping patients was tremendously rewarding; but there are only so many ways to reprogram a pacemaker and she needed a new way to honor her creative spirit. So she traded the 9-to-5 job for the 24/7 life of academia, earning a BLA at Washington State University, followed by an MS Architecture at University of Idaho. Anne is absolutely blissful every time she tackles a healing garden project— the most rewarding ones are those involving design for people struggling with serious health issues or various forms of dementia. She feels blessed to have discovered a rewarding career path where listening to needs and applying creative design makes a real difference in her client’s well-being and quality of life. Two-years before graduation I began scoping out firms that mirror my philosophy of design and professional practice. I wanted a firm that valued honesty and integrity, and where I knew creative and exemplary work was produced. Most waking hours are spent at our jobs; it was important the firm be fun, creative, family-like, small, and supportive of my long-term mission in healing garden design. I had many talks with the Principals at SPVV Landscape Architects before coming on board. We work hard, with genuine commitment and enthusiasm from every team member. I’ve been rewarded with challenging work and results I am proud of. But SPVV also knows how to have fun! That makes it a place I look forward to hanging my hat every morning. Education University of Idaho—Master of Science Architecture 2005 | Washington State University—Bachelor Landscape Architecture 2002 | Eastern Washington University—Bachelor of Arts 1986 Specialties: Therapeutic, dementia and healing garden design.