Angela Danadjieva

In 1965, while Danadjieva was at the École des Beaux-Arts, she and Ivan Tzvetin won first prize in an international design competition for the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza. While the project was never built, this brought Danadjieva to the United States. She met Lawrence Halprin soon after, and joined his firm Halprin and Associates as a project designer. There, from 1967 to 1976, she led more than twenty urban design and city-planning projects with the firm, including the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, the Jewish Home of San Francisco, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Notably, she was lead designer on the Ira Keller Fountain Park in Portland, Oregon, and Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington.^[4]

After leaving Halprin and Associates in 1976, Danadjieva founded Danadjieva & Koenig Associates with architect Thomas Koenig. Their major projects include the White River State Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, a planning study for James River Park System in Richmond, Virginia, and an extension to Seattle's Freeway Park to include the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.^[3]

Danadjieva maintains her practice with Koenig today in Tiburon, California.

• Ira Keller Fountain Park – Portland, Oregon
• Freeway Park – Seattle, Washington
• Thomas Polk Park - Charlotte, North Carolina
• Washington State Capitol – Olympia, Washington
• Jewish Home of San Francisco – San Francisco, California
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – Richmond, Virginia
• White River State Park – Indianapolis, Indiana
• James River Park System – Richmond, Virginia
• Freeway Park Extension – Seattle, Washington

• A Woman, a Sculpture, a Park, 2007 article in The Stranger (newspaper)