Dick Glanville, whos provided unpaid services to San Anselmo as a landscape architect on and off since 1999, will get a Green Award.

The prize will be presented at 7 p.m. Aug. 5 at a special Town Council meeting.

It was voted for unanimously at a recent session of the Quality of Life Commission, which has been giving awards to unsung heroes monthly for five years.

As a volunteer, Glanville helped formulate the plan to replant and water the towns diseased elm trees, and has helped out with the rain garden at the library, tennis courts at Memorial Park, and landscaping at the firehouse after the flood.

Hes supplemented his paid work for the town with many volunteer hours on many tasks because its what feels right to do the old giving back, he says.

What does that giving back look like?

At the rain garden, he worked with some other folks and prepared plans to rebuild the curbs, develop a gravel and drainage system, and then prepared the plants themselves.

And as an essential part of the volunteer elm tree task force, which was linked to U.C. Extension, he helped come up with a long-term plan for strategic replacement. Five trees that are still doing fine were planted the first year, 1999, but, because of budgetary constraints, additional ones were not planted again until last year.

Glanville did come up with a new plan but stepped aside because he was retiring. I had to pass the baton, he says.

Way back, when his kids attended, he, his wife and four other parents built the first Wade Thomas garden, with raised flower beds, and also built a stone wall in front of the gym.

Read more from the original source:
Volunteer landscape architect wins ‘unsung hero’ award

Choosing A Landscape Architect ~ Athens Ga, Wms Assoc.
http://www.gaplanning.com/landscape-architect-athens/ Here #39;s another from our "How To" series - this time we talk about choosing a professional landscape arc...

By: WilliamsAssociates

Read the rest here:
Choosing A Landscape Architect ~ Athens Ga, Wms

Landscape Architect Project in Albuquerque by Michael Polikoff
Landscape Architect Micahel Polikoff shows us a landscape design here in Albuquerque that includes Xeric Features and also qualified the homeowner for a sign...

By: abqwebstudio

Follow this link:
Landscape Architect Project in Albuquerque by Michael Polikoff - Video

July Landscape Architect Video July 2013

By: abqwebstudio

Go here to see the original:
July Landscape Architect Video July 2013 - Video

Landscape Architect Joy Kuebler
Joy Kuebler presents McKinley High School Reconstruction project The entry layout mimics the splayed angle of the addition, and introduces walks leading to t...

By: Susan Young

Read the original post:
Landscape Architect Joy Kuebler - Video

Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 3:01 AM

Laurie Olin says he really meant to retire two years ago. He even had notices sent out to announce he was handing the reins of his Philadelphia-based landscape architecture firm to his partners. But projects kept coming up that he couldn't resist. The grounds of the Barnes Foundation. The Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif. Dilworth Plaza in front of City Hall.

So, at 75, Olin is as peripatetic as ever, jetting off to Europe and the West Coast to see clients. On Wednesday, though, he'll take a break from long-haul travels to meet President Obama and receive the National Medal of Arts, in recognition of his lifelong crusade to create tranquil oases that make cities more livable.

For Olin, who favors bow ties and tends toward the self-effacing, the award is a chance "for me to swim quietly among the celebrities," who include the likes of director George Lucas, playwright Tony Kushner and soprano Renee Fleming. What he fails to stress is that he is only the fourth landscape architect (the second from Philadelphia) to receive the honor since its establishment in 1984. That puts him in the company of three of the field's most influential practitioners from the last half-century: Dan Kiley, Lawrence Halprin, and Ian McHarg, who, like Olin, spent his career teaching at Penn.

Tall and lean, Olin is the product of the vast open spaces of the Pacific Northwest. Yet he "fell in love with cities" at the precise moment when places like Philadelphia and New York were hemorrhaging middle-class residents, and has always seen parks as a means of seducing people back.

Olin is probably most famous for his 1988 transformation of Manhattan's Bryant Park, which had become a notorious drug-dealers' haven in the 1960s. He had personally witnessed a shooting there in 1968.

But rather than fortify the space against such behavior - the popular approach at the time - Olin and his late partner, Robert Hanna, tore down walls to make it easy to saunter in from any side. The biggest surprise in Olin's elegant, Parisian-inflected renovation was the decision to furnish the park with movable cafe chairs and tables. Critics were sure they would end up in pawnshops.

Instead, midtown office workers flocked to the serene refuge, the dealers fled, and Bryant Park became a template for reviving battered cities.

"It was a huge turning point," says Bryan Hanes, a Philadelphia landscape architect who worked for Olin and applied the same ideas to redesigning West Philadelphia's Clark Park.

More:
Changing Skyline: Phila. landscape architect Laurie Olin wins National Medal of Arts

Exterior Images-landscape architect Adding outdoor living elements to pool back yard
Existing backyard has pool and spa but lack any other reason to look at the back yard let alone go out and enjoy the space. Completing the pool with a raised...

By: Hal Blevins

Read more:
Exterior Images-landscape architect Adding outdoor living elements to pool back yard - Video

Tiago Torres Campos Trust Me I #39;m a Landscape Architect

By: EscapeStudentsSoc

Read the original post:
Tiago Torres Campos Trust Me I'm a Landscape Architect - Video

Mary Estes - Landscape Architect - G Home (unedited)
Mary Estes, as introduced by G Street Founder Philip Beere, during workshop Green Home 101 held on location at Gordon Estates in Phoenix, AZ. The landscape design resulted in improved water...

By: GStreetInc

Follow this link:
Mary Estes - Landscape Architect - G Home (unedited) - Video

Tucson, AZ (PRWEB) May 30, 2013

Walking through the courtyard of the Bates Mansion on a warm spring day, Dr. W. Thomas Hintz surveys the existing palm trees and gray concrete slabs that lie under the flapping banner of the the former resident of the home, the Mountain Oyster Club. Armed with both a PhD in particle physics and a masters degree in landscape architecture, it is Dr. Hintzs mission to turn this 5,000 square foot, concrete covered courtyard into an welcoming space that reflects the mission of the homes new tenant, a maker and hacker space called Maker House.

When the Executive Director of Maker House, Vanessa Ford, first approached Dr. Hintz with a proposal to turn this barren courtyard into a desert-friendly oasis, she was unsure if Dr. Hintz would be able to take on the project. Dr. Hintz only accepts a handful of projects every year, so that when he works with a client, they get his undivided attention. We are thrilled that he agreed to work with us.

An award-winning landscape architect, whose work has been featured on HGTV, Hintz is known primarily for his pool, spa and outdoor spaces, but the needs of the Maker House courtyard mesh well with his own interests in dynamic, whole-picture design. The challenge of turning several layers of concrete slab into a green space that still respects the precious water resources of a desert space were part of what drew Hintz to accept the project, but the mission of Maker House was the deciding factor.

I love exercising the creative part of my brain, as it allows for a balanced approach to science, and Maker House is all about bringing this balanced approach to the broader Tucson community, says Hintz. When Vanessa came to me with the idea, she told me that this is going to be a community-driven collective of artisans, hackers, and crafters, with an emphasis on bridging and combining disciplines for creative problem solving. I knew immediately that it was something I had to be a part of.

Dr. Hintzs design is being implemented by T and B Contractor Project Manager Cisco Curry, who is working hand-in-hand with Hintz to bring fresh ideas and artistic integrity to the space. A vertical food garden planted along the shade pergola is among the ideas that Hintz and Curry have devised for the courtyard. When the space opens in September of this year, Dr. Hintz will serve as Maker Houses Resident Physicist, hosting a salon series devoted to inviting members of the community into the space to discuss, research and explore scientific ideas. Mr. Curry will teach classes on hydroponics, vertical food production and water harvesting.

Maker House will also house several large workrooms, an onsite coffee bar, a workshop with modern artistic equipment including kilns, 3D printers, computerized sewing machines and vinyl cutters, and meeting space for Tucson organizations. Classes in traditional crafting techniques, health and wellness, using new technologies, and other community-driven offerings will be available and taught by local experts. Ford says they welcome suggestions and input from the community on what classes should be offered.

Turning back to the kumquat trees that provide shade for the small concert area, Hintz gestures to the flagstone and begins to discuss the relationship between the heat reflected off the stone and the temperature needs of the trees, and how the two are not currently in harmony with each other. But thats OK, says Hintz, because when we look at the whole picture, we can see how to alter the airflow, water usage, and so on, to make sure these trees biological requirements are met while still allowing the space to be used for the creative purpose it was designed for. And that sort of describes what Maker House is all about; combining the scientific with the creative to make a better place.

More About Dr. Hintz *Ph.D. ETH Institute for Particle Physics *Currently ranked 2nd in North America for the recitation of Pi from memory (recited 12.890 non-repeating digits of Pi on National Pi Day in 2011) *International Award of Excellence, Bronze Medal Design Award (NSPI) *Work featured on HGTV's BIG SPLASH series

More About Maker House *Maker House is a new collaborative artisan, maker, education, tech, and gathering space opening in the Downtown Tucson Arts District Tech Corridor in September of 2013. *Sponsored by ArtFire, the premiere online venue for handmade artisans. *Event space will include a coffee bar, outdoor courtyard space for concerts, meeting rooms and communal work spaces for artists and creative entrepreneurs *Space will be open to community groups, artisan collectives and non-profits for meetings and events

The rest is here:
CERN Physicist and Noted Landscape Architect Redesigns Tucson's Historic Bate's Mansion Courtyard