Michael Fotheringham

Biography

Michael Fotheringham received his MLA from Utah State University in 1978. His bachelor’s degree is from Brigham Young University. He has practiced as a landscape architect in Canada and the United States for the past 28 years. Northern California has been his focus for the last 25 years, completing residential, recreational and commercial projects.

MD Fotheringham, Landscape Architects, Inc., was established in 1992, and Michael holds registration as a Landscape Architect in California and Nevada.

He has served as Northern California Chapter President of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Director of the California Council of ASLA. He contributed to program curriculum development and directed graphics and design studios at the University of California at Berkeley, UC Extension Certificate Program in Landscape Architecture from 1981 to 1987. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Davis in the Landscape Architecture Program from 1994 to 2004. Currently he serves as a member of the Arts Commission in Walnut Creek, California.

Since 1992, MD Fotheringham, Landscape Architects, Inc., has specialized in residential community development, designing over 100 neighborhoods in Northern California. The City and County of San Francisco awarded Michael and April Philips winners and design lead for the $25 million Union Square Improvement Project. The redesigned Union Square opened in July, 2002.

Michael has been the recipient of numerous awards including: American Society of Landscape Architects - Student Honor Award, 1978; National Peace Garden Design Competition Traveling Exhibition Finalist, 1989; and the American Society of Landscape Architects, Northern California Chapter, Award of Merit, 1992. MD Fotheringham won the design competition for Pleasanton Central Park, Pleasanton, California. The firm has been selected by the Pleasanton City Council to consult with the City on various planning and implementation phases of the 318-acre park project.