Practicing architecture on the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas for over three decades, Tamara Halligan employs an artist’s approach to designing buildings in their natural setting.
In 1992, Tamara graduated from the University of Idaho and obtained her Washington State Architect License in 2006. Since then, she has worked with numerous builders and architects and currently runs an independent practice out of the home she designed for herself, husband, and daughter. In 2021, she took sabbatical to study fashion design at the New York Institute of Technology where she received an Associate of Applied Science summa cum laude.
At the age of nine, Tamara’s parents built a Northwest style home on the beaches of Paradise Bay, WA. Over the years, while her family continued to build and move, Tamara lived in as many houses as her age until the completion of her own in 2002. Living in so many different homes was a great inspiration for her future profession.
A resident of Jefferson County, an ecosystem hosting cliffs, bays, forests, and plentiful wildlife, Tamara considers attention to the natural surroundings of a site as critical for design decision making.
Aside from her passion for architecture, Tamara loves art, fashion, knitting and hiking and bringing her interdisciplinarian learning to her architectural practice.
Her visual art portfolio can be found by clicking here
