Don Vaughan
After graduate from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon, Don was invited to join John Lantizus & Associates, Landscape Architects as the project landscape architect for the new campus of Simon Fraser University. where he worked closely with Arthur Erickson on the site design. He was also the project landscape architect for the new campus at the University of Victoria.
In 1971, Don established Don Vaughan & Associates. He advanced landscape architecture to a more comprehensive level of large-scale urban design, community revitalization, park design and campus planning. His works include the, the University of Victoria, Quest University, Whistler Village and Concord Pacific Place. Don headed the site design team for Expo ’86 and then entered Emily Carr College of Art and Design where he received his diploma in 1989.
After graduation 1n 1989, he was invited to join the planning team for Concord Pacific Place. He established Don Vaughan Ltd. and continued to practice landscape architecture, but with anaphases on giving meaning to place with site specific sculpture and the use of native planting.
In March of 2001, Don, with his two sons, Jeff and Mark, establish Vaughan Landscape Planning and Design. The firm continued to focus on large-scale urban design projects.
Don taught in the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Winnipeg in 1980 and at the Architecture Program at UBC in the 1980s. This included the UBC Studies Abroad to Venice, Italy in 1980, Hong Kong, China in 1982 and Athens, Greece in 1984.
Don has received international recognition for both his landscape architecture and sculpture. He was recognized as a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
In November 2007, Don received an Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Victoria for his contribution to landscape architecture in British Columbia.