Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan’s collaboration as an artist team began in 2001 and has fostered a wide range of innovative site-specific public art commissions and plans. Their Seattle-based studio, Haddad|Drugan LLC, operates at intersections of art, architecture, landscape, and theater. Laura Haddad has a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in History from Bowdoin College. Her background also includes jewelry and stage set design. She has recently served as a member of the Seattle Design Commission and Seattle Public Art Advisory Committee. Tom Drugan received a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Colorado. His background includes sustainable building, filmmaking, and lighting.
Haddad and Drugan have taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and University of Washington and lectured in venues across the country. Their training in architecture and landscape architecture helps them to successfully translate art concepts to large scales, respond to contextual conditions, and integrate environmental processes into work that performs aesthetically, functionally, and ecologically. The artists’ award-winning work has been published in Sculpture, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Eco-Structure, Landscape Journal, Land Forum, and other journals and books.
The Haddad|Drugan studio also includes collaborators Richard Desanto and Rhys Harrington, both of whom graduated from University of Washington with Master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture and who contribute their skills in design, modeling, drafting, and graphics to the artworks of Haddad Drugan.