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What does Landscape
Architecture mean to you?
CELTRUDA:
Taking the complexities of space and
organizing them into a simplistic social cultural
order that defines area as place!
EGNATZ:
I spent 4 years in college learning about
it. I’ve spent half my waking life the past 10 years
doing it. I think about it constantly, I worry about
it, I advocate for it, I depend on it. It is not just my
job, it is a professional mission.
HEEB:
The ability to shape the built environment
HOLTZMAN:
Someone once told me that
“Landscape architecture encompasses the analysis,
planning, design, management and stewardship of
the natural and built environment through science
and design…It is a profession that is broad in scale
and scope. Landscape Architects receive training
in site design, historic preservation, and planning,
as well as in technical and scientific areas such as
grading, drainage, horticulture, and environmental
sciences. With this diverse background, landscape
architects possess a unique blend of abilities to
help address important local, regional, and national
priorities.”
KELLEHER:
Trying to make the world a better
place, and forever explaining to others what exactly
it is that you do.
SHIBLEY:
Providing creative, pragmatic, aesthetic,
and sustainable places that benefit individuals,
communities, and the environment.
VIOLETTE:
Landscape Architecture is boundless
and ever changing. That sounds epic. But that
challenges and excites me. Landscape Architecture
is all around, no matter where you go - you can
see it. And the solution is not something that just
happens. It needs to be discovered. This discovery
is a process and that is the fun/challenging part.
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