In addition to design, Laurie Olin is a passionate draftsman. He lectures and publishes on the value of drawing as a means of doing research, thinking and communicating. His watercolors and drawings have been exhibited and collected in major museums both in the U.S. and abroad. For almost fifty years Olin has supplemented his design, art and teaching by publishing books and articles on the history of landscape design, drawing, and theory and design in his own practice. He won the 1991 BRADFORD Medal for best writing in Landscape Architecture. In addition to the numerous articles he has written, he co-authored nine books beginning with Breath on the Mirror: Seattle's Skid Road Community, (1973).