Stig Lennart Andersson

Stig Lennart Andersson usually referred to as Stig L. Andersson, is a Danish landscape architect, founder and Creative Director of Copenhagen-based SLA which has developed into an interdisciplinary organisation working with landscape, urban spaces and urban planning.
Andersson is also professor at University of Copenhagen and was visiting professor at Aarhus School of Architecture in 2009.

Biography

Stig L. Andersson studied landscape architecture at the School of Architecture at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1986. Following his graduation, he travelled to Japan on a Japanese scholarship. After first embarking on an academic career, working as an assistant professor from 1985 to 1991, he set up his own practice in 1994. In 2002 it was the first office to be awarded the international landscape architecture magazine Topos's European Landscape Award in recognition of its focus on sensory urban spaces.
The firm is a frequent collaborator with leading Danish architectural firms such as Henning Larsen Architects, C. F. Møller Architects and Lundgaard & Tranberg.
At the 2011 International Horticultural Exposition in Xi'an, China, Andersson was one of 10 landscape architects specially invited to create a so-called 'master garden'.

Memberships include:

Appointed Fellow of the Association of Danish Landscape Architects. 1990
Appointed Member of the Danish Advisory Board for the State in Artistic Matters, Committee for Clerical Art. Since 1992
Board Member of the Danish Road Directorate's Committee for the Future. 2000–2002
Appointed Fellow of the Danish Artists movement 'Kammeraterne', Free Exhibition's Building for Danish Artists. Since 2006
Appointed Fellow of the Danish Advisory Board for the State in Artistic Matters. Member of the Committee for Ecclesiastical Art 2002–2007. Chairman of the Section for Architecture 2007–2010.
Appointed Editorial Board Member of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture's yearbook. 2005