Carol Mayer-Reed

Biography

Carol completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1973, with a specialization in interior design, and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from Utah State University in 1977. She moved to Portland in 1977 where she was a landscape architect for the firms of Warner, Walker & Macy and John Warner Associates over the next six years.

In 1983 Carol started her own practice, and in 1987 formed a partnership with Michael Reed to expand their multidiscipline design practice, called Mayer/Reed, which provides landscape architecture, urban design and visual communications services throughout the Pacific Northwest. Since then Carol and Michael have collaborated on a campus design study and gateways for the Microsoft Corporation campus, the design of the Portland Police Memorial, the signage master plan for the 40 Mile Loop and the landscape and signage component of the Washington State University, Vancouver Campus master plan.

Public project experience includes Sellwood Riverfront Park, master plan for The Oaks Amusement Park, the Tropical Africa exhibit at the metro Washington Park Zoo and the Middle Oregon Indian Museum at Warm Springs. Corporate commissions include executive courtyards for the Hewlett-Packard Vancouver campus and the Tektronix Wilsonville campus.