tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85857609088506200232024-03-05T23:03:15.787-07:00Weeds and WallsLorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13612650593231153609noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585760908850620023.post-40893320767586463142014-01-28T14:10:00.001-07:002014-01-28T14:10:14.589-07:00Three Influential Landscapes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Interview: Landscape Journal. Fall 1993</div>
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First, I want to thank you for including me in your list of
leading designers. Ten years ago a client in describing what I do said, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You celebrate the desert rather than deny
it.” </i>I have tried to create
delightful environments that have as their unique character the special qualities
of the desert. When trying to identify the landscapes that most influenced my
work I just had to look at the photos pinned to my studio wall. Trying to
isolate the most important three was a more difficult task. Since I did not
study landscape architecture in school, my education and influences have come
from observations and first hand experience. I have selected the following
three landscapes (environments), they continue to influence me 20 and 30 years
after my first exposure to them. </div>
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First: The Sonoran Desert Landscape. The opportunity to live
on a ranch during my high school years presented itself and I took it. After my
first thirteen years in the city, this was a wonderful new experience.<br />
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Consequently
I discovered the desert. I found great pleasure in exploring the desert. It was
absolutely fascinating. The closer you
looked, the more interesting it became. In looking at the man-made landscape, I
found nothing as interesting as the desert.<br />
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Its plants are the living time line that connects us to the
natural history of the place. Native plants represent the state of the art of
the process of evolution of a place. I see this as nature at its best. I have
tried to make the beauty and natural processes of the desert part of my work. (Unfortunately
its lessons have been mostly ignored and development has historically diminished
its beauty and energy)<br />
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Second: Looking at a photo of Costani’s North Apse, I can
remember my first visit there in 1966. I was an art major in college. A design
instructor recommend I visit Cosanti, Palo Soleri’s studio complex in the
desert. That visit had a profound effect on me, I immediately changed my major
and enrolled in architecture. Cosanti was a new form of landscape created out
of the desert itself. Soleri had seamlessly combined architecture and landscape
into a new experience. The complex burrowed into the ground not unlike a desert
creature and was unlike anything I had ever experienced. The sounds of his wind
bells, the foundry operation, the international languages, and the ever present
opera music added to the magic of the place.<br />
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Third: I have three photos of Luis Barragan’s garden as
viewed through his famous living room window. The photos are all of the same
view but they span a period of forty years or more. They show the evolution of
his attitude and garden during this period. The latest photo shows a wild
garden that seems to have a life of its own. The book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Builders In the Sun</i> was my first exposure to his work. I was most
impressed by the amount of study and discipline that went into this limitless
1947 environment. With this garden I became aware of the poetic possibilities
of space. Emilio Ambasz, in his book on Barragan’s work, called it liquid
silence. <br />
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I hope this is what you are looking for. I draw much better
than I write.<br />
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Steve Martino<br />
Landscape Journal<br />
Fall 1993</div>
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Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13612650593231153609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585760908850620023.post-53874859368302595412014-01-28T14:07:00.001-07:002014-01-28T14:07:50.615-07:00Joshua Tree National Forest, February 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Below is
the text of the recent lecture I gave in England. At each lecture someone
asked me how I could talk about sustainability when I use concrete in my
designs because concrete production produces so much Carbon dioxide. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">My answer
was that it is a "permanent material" and "what is more
sustainable than something that is permanent". Concrete is the most common
and cost effective hard paving material we have In Arizona; I actually didn't have a clue how much CO2 it produced.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When I
got back to my studio I decided to look at the Carbon dioxide emissions of
concrete and compare it to other paving options and activities to put it into
perspective for me. We found a study by the University of Bath
on the CO2 produced to create different building materials. We also calculated
the CO2 emissions of driving, my flight to England and the
CO2 absorption of a single tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I decided
to test the numbers on my house and studio, not only for my concrete paving but
also for the concrete masonry site walls I have added since moving here as well as the
existing ones. The results are as follows:</span></div>
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</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have 3 courtyards and a driveway that are poured concrete. These
total 3,442 square feet, which equal 38 cubic yards of concrete. The total
Carbon dioxide footprint of the concrete hardscape is 3,671 pounds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Next we
measured all the concrete block walls, benches and structures I have built on
my property. I have 2,358 square ft. of site walls. The total Carbon dioxide
footprint of the concrete block is 9,305 pounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Then we
counted all the trees. I have 23 trees I have planted around my home and
studio. These trees will absorb 20,953 pounds in their lifetime. </span><br />
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rough calculation, when we totaled it all up the landscape is not only carbon
neutral, but the trees will absorb about 16,000 pounds more Carbon dioxide than
has been emitted by producing all the concrete I have in my landscape. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chart with calculations for my home/studio landscape's CO2</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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appears that one tree balances out the carbon for 75 square feet of concrete
paving. And that you should have 10 trees to clean up the air polluted each
year by your car. You have to clean up after your dog in public, why not your car too?</span></div>
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below illustrates these numbers. I think I will analyze CO2 in the projects shown
in my presentations next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.greenspec.co.uk/embodied-energy.php" target="_blank">Building Material CO2 Reference</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.americanforests.org/assumptions-and-sources/" target="_blank">Tree CO2 Reference</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am a
landscape architect by title but I consider myself a garden designer. I’ve
never had much interest in putting plants around buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am more
interested in creating outdoor living spaces that make a connection between architecture
and nature.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I think of garden design as an art form; it’s
my art. I like to solve problems and to create interesting places that my
clients love to be in and that are grounded to the natural processes of the
site and region.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gardens are
an enduring concept. They reflect our ideas and beliefs about our relationship
with nature and gardens provide the space to experience this relationship. This
has been true throughout history.</span></b></div>
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seems to be an interest in my work, that’s why I’m here. One reason is where I
work, the Sonoran
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One of the world most beautiful and sensitive environments. It wasn't until the 1950’s that it's boundaries
were set. We typically get</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">between 5-7 inches of rain</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">a year with contrasted nine feet of evaporation. That is the definition of a
desert. The Sonoran desert is about120,000 square miles, approximately the size of Italy. About two-thirds of our desert are in northern Mexico.</span></div>
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we had 33 days over 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius). Gardens have to deal with
high heat, low rainfall and blazing bright sunlight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">To me a
garden is a man-made outdoor space that is created for personal enjoyment<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. I’m not interested in flower gardens or
vegetable gardens. They are ok, but I’m not interested in them.</b> I am more interested in garden's as architecture.</span><br />
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minimum requirement for a garden or the basic garden unit is a tree, a wall and
a chair with a little water. To expand the garden, add more trees, walls,
chairs and water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Two weeks
ago I gave a lecture at the national convention for the American Society of
Landscape Architects. The theme was sustainability. My talk was “<u>How to
Design Beautiful and Award
Winning Gardens!”</u></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was really about how to make your gardens environmentally
significant, then hopefully win awards.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I typically don’t pay much attention to
sustainability advice because I don’t think it applies to me. I invented
sustainability.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I read about how my projects were sustainable 20 year ago in
Landscape Architecture magazine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the
west landscapes are</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">like terminally ill patients</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. They
are</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">tethered to IVs and monitors</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">and need
constant attention to keep them alive. If someone pulls the plug, the garden
will die. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathryn Miller's <a href="http://www.kathrynamiller.com/lawnsinthedesert.html" target="_blank">"Lawns in the Desert"</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The only way I know of to break out this situation is to use native
plants. </span>They have
less of a demand for water and fertilizer, which is much better spent on food crops.
In the west, water guzzling lawns are the biggest culprit, along with air
pollution caused by their continuous maintenance requirements.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">My
intern, Lora, was explaining the 3 tenants of sustainability to me: environmental,
social and economic.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I told her my definition of sustainability has always
been very simple: when the power or water is shut off your garden should not
die.</span></b></div>
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preparing this talk, I came across a few things that I found disturbing that
has made me think instead of just implying sustainability, I should be more
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was a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">documentary about the plight of the Koala Bears</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. They
face many critical problems due to their shrinking habitat. The documentary
focused on how development is endangering them by chopping their habitat
into disconnected islands. They survive by eating the leaves of only 5 species of eucalyptus out of
the 735 species. Development and bad planning has put their future in danger.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">We see
the ads that say Americans</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">discard enough plastic water bottles a year</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">to wrap around the earth 3 times.</span></div>
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was an article I read about sustainability and resource consumption<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. It said if the world consumed at the rate
of an American we would need 5 planets to sustain us. If the world consumed at
the rate of a European we would need 3 planets. We need 1.3 planets worth of
resources to support everyone on the planet.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have
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the simplest things landscape designers can do to be more sustainable? It’s not
rocket science. Use natives – save resources for food crops.</span><br />
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significant it needs to accommodate the natural environment besides responding to
the client’s needs and conditions.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When
working with plants I had an epiphany and it side tracked my architectural
career. It got me off on a pursuit of working with native plants that lasted
decades. I’ll talk about that later.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Each
of your projects has an opportunity to enhance or diminish the qualities of the site. it's your choice as a designer. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have developed a very narrow definition of
what is a good landscape design</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. I separate landscape design</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">into two
categories based on a project’s usefulness to the natural environment:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">native plants-good, exotic plants-bad. It’s
that simple, It’s good for the planet or its bad.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">How many of you are members of <a href="http://land8lounge.com/" target="_blank">Land8Lounge</a>?
Land8Lounge is a good place to see international projects and see what people
are thinking about the profession. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">After
seeing a project and reading old forum discussions on Land8 I’ve decided there
is a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">subgroup of “evil” for artificial plants.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I saw a
discussion on the best ways to cool and clean</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">artificial turf</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. It
turns out it takes more water to maintain it than to grow real turf. An album
showed how proud a landscape architect was of his</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘freeze dried’ or reconstructed palm trees</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">and his warehouse of plastic plants</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Then I looked at this diagram and I said “Oh
Crud”!</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Where do my projects</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <b>go?</b> I try
to do the right thing and use native plants but I also like to</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">use</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">
natural stone</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">: granite, travertine, limestone and crushed stone. Do you know
where these come from? Mountains and forests are being demolished somewhere so
we can use “natural stone”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Since I’m
making this up, I made a separate category for my projects and it’s called</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“not too bad”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">You’re
asking yourself:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When it
comes to winning awards:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Good” is a shoo-in</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Bad” is also good</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Evil” never wins – I was just told that last year the Museum of Modern Art had plastic plants on the
roof and it won an ASLA honor award.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Unfortunately,
what this means that environmentally bad projects can win awards if they look
good. So much for being “Stewards of the Environment”.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2IFWqx5Xlnosj_VFNPUHKBmLBConIIB4cPLme295-W9kYuB9kLGS3vWO9oxvwiHNFJqQcwf7BVjx3srk_9AxAmvdbJDo90PgLKK8YM3nPHwetg5QZ-prDrRy3-RbrnfRGkTaTOxub9g/s1600/David+Shrigley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2IFWqx5Xlnosj_VFNPUHKBmLBConIIB4cPLme295-W9kYuB9kLGS3vWO9oxvwiHNFJqQcwf7BVjx3srk_9AxAmvdbJDo90PgLKK8YM3nPHwetg5QZ-prDrRy3-RbrnfRGkTaTOxub9g/s320/David+Shrigley.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.davidshrigley.com/index.html" target="_blank">Artist David Shrigley</a></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Historically, in the United States Landscape architects
are very good at creating wonderful places to be in, but not too good at
accommodating nature.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I want my
gardens to say</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">something about the site and its history</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. I’ve
learned that native plants do this perfectly.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">They are the timeline of the site</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. They
represent the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“state of the art”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">of the
evolution of a place. They are a perfect match for the site. The design not
only needs to address the client’s problems but should be of significance to
the regional environment, the street, the profession and your goals.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gardens can take on a bigger issue</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">s.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">You make your own projects and you should make
them interesting</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I didn’t plan on being a landscape architect. I
just wanted some landscape skills. I thought all architects should also be
landscape architects</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. The site seemed too important to the architecture that I couldn’t
imagine turning it over to someone else – luckily architects don’t think that
way or we wouldn’t have any work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I started
out working against the grain by deciding to use native plants in my projects when they were commonly perceived as weeds.
As a result, all my projects have had to be demonstration projects, not only to my clients but the public. I once read that "I had to build my stage before I could act on it."</span></div>
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school in somewhat chronological order. I’ll discuss some of them, the others
will be on my blog</b>.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Nothing
in the city was as interesting as the desert, especially the “Wash”. That</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b> </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">is where the action is. This was my model for
planting design.</span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Landscaping
is a situation where you can spend</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">an incredible amount of money and when you are finished you could
still have all the problems you started with. It can be only eyewash.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the desert we need shade and
privacy.</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Don’t be
satisfied with your first solution. Rework and refine until it’s perfect.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The perfect solution is right in front of you –
you just need to find it</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Here we have plants and insects that have a symbiotic
relationships. Native plants are a window to a parallel universe. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Tell Tarantula Hawk story</i></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Client just wanted an entrance wall.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">This project turned out to be a demonstration garden that
addressed re-vegetating farmland back into desert land. It won a national ASLA
honor award. It was a rare commercial project that got published in shelter
magazines, Sunset, Phoenix Home and Garden, Dwell, Architectural Digest and
foreign magazines. I got more mileage out of this than any other project.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’ve told this story a hundred times</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. At my
first job in a landscape architecture office we were doing a townhouse project
using a typical palette of Mediterranean plants. (Palms, bougainvillea,
junipers, lawn etc.) and I noticed next door was a remnant desert lot with Palo
Verde and Mesquite
trees, Creosote and Brittle Bush</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: black;">.</span> I asked
my boss why we were using plants that would need constant monitoring to keep
them alive when next door was a palette of plants that were growing on the
rainfall only. My boss said “oh, those are just weeds” I thought this was
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">For some
reason that was good enough for</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">the rest of the profession, but not for me</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. I went
on a quest to learn all the plants on that site and then learn why they weren’t
appreciated and used. This took a little longer than I thought I would because of the
ingrained resistance to native plants.</span></div>
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visually claim the adjacent land as part of your project. Classic borrowed
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while I discovered that native plants bring along their entourage of characters
to activate the garden. I call them “pollinators and predators</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">”.</span></div>
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garden becomes a habitat and you tap into the food chain.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When I discovered this, my gardens started to become interesting
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your projects are all demonstration projects if you want to sell
an idea –</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">mine was native plants. I wanted to show that they had value as
landscape material</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Historically native plants were viewed as useless vermin to be
eradicated and anything you did to the desert was an improvement</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></div>
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building material or it will work against you. It flattens forms and washes out
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plants connect the project to the region & give your project </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">soul.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">20 years
ago I was at a conference where I woman researcher was talking about the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">public
desires for park amenities. She said that people wanted songbirds more than
they wanted benches and drinking fountains.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The next
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research comparing native and non-native species on their relevance to the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">He started by saying songbirds eat insects
rather than seeds. If you want songbirds you need insects and if you want
insects you need native plants.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mr. Dawson went on to talk about native vs.
non-native landscapes. He compared the California Live Oak with the Blue Gum
Eucalyptus</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The oak had 250 guilds of insects (I had to look up guilds) and 14
species of ants.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Blue
Gum had</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">zero guilds and zero ants</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. The problem with displacing
native trees with exotic plants is that these exotics are of <b>no use to the
overall biotic community.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">25 years
ago I went on a pilgrimage to the Alhambra.
The place was fabulous but it seemed to me that</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">none of the plants were 900 years old.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I took 2 rolls of film in the Court of the Lions. A few years
later I was thinking about the garden and I couldn’t remember what the plants
looked like. I had seen photos of the courtyard taken over a 100 year span. My
mind was blank, I could not remember any plants.</span></div>
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my photos and there were some plants but they were insignificant against the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It made me think that plants were incidental to the
garden</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. The garden needs to stand on its own as a space without plants.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I think this is why I like ruins so much.
They imply space and history.</span></b></div>
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are made up of two worlds<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, the man-made
and the natural world</b>. I try to juxtapose these two worlds<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’ve described my garden design style as “Weeds and Walls” – Nature
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">My
approach to Garden Design is pretty straight forward problem solving.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I look at
design as problem solving “with style”.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The better you are at
understanding the site problems the more significant and better your designs
will be because they are specifically grounded to the site.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Site
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difficult project because the design was totally arbitrary</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. The
site was 400 acres of perfectly flat ground. I needed site problems to get a
grasp on the site. After a few years of struggling with the design</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I decided
that since the design was to be arbitrary I could do anything I wanted to so I made
it my homage to Barragan and had fun with it. </span></b></div>
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on a site to satisfy the client.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Once you do that (solve the problems) you have
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’m
basically a set designer and I edit and manipulate elements to control views on
the site</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">. I find new projects have
either a good space or bad space which is based on geometry and views.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am a fanatic about connecting indoor space
with outdoor space</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Basic tools I use to build space and connect
the indoors with the outdoors are</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">the floor plane, wall plane, ceiling plane,
forced perspective, receding colors, axis etc.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It seems I try to turn my
projects into walled gardens.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I start looking for opportunities</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">–</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I’m a ‘site opportunist’ I start by saying what do the neighbors
have that we can use?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I think I can sum up my approach to Garden
Design in 3 lines</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Look for
opportunities</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Make it
interesting</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Give it
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Start Slides</span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To download a PDF of all the lecture slides on googl<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">e</span> docs </span>click <a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0vo9oOV3b6NVFpuZVhPaE9hZEU&export=download" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></div>
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Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13612650593231153609noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585760908850620023.post-76054109608477827912012-01-04T14:28:00.000-07:002012-01-09T11:34:12.122-07:00Gardens and People Interview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">This is the transcript from an interview I did in 2010 with Bella D'Arcy for the British garden website <a href="http://www.gardensandpeople.co.uk/contemporary.html">Gardens and People</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Steve Martino is a
landscape architect who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. This follows 30 years as a designer, winning over a hundred
awards, in 2006 he received the American Society of Landscape Architects highest
design award; The Design Medal, He has received a 2010 Award of Excellence from
the Arizona Chapter of the ASLA for his ’Palm Springs Modern’ project. On of
his was recent projects was featured on the cover of the March issue of the Garden
Design Journal. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Q: You originally studied art and architecture, what
made you apply these skills to the man-made environment, the landscape, at a
time in the 1970s when architecture was a boom profession in the States and
landscape architecture practically unheard of? </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">In architecture
school I had an interest in the space between and around buildings as an extension
of the interior; it was ‘bonus space’ to the building. I thought that all
architects should also be landscape architects. I couldn’t imagine turning over
the site to someone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">When I dropped out
of school I took a job with a LA to learn some landscape skills. This was the
first time I took a critical look at the man-made environment and I wasn’t
impressed in fact I was appalled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I loved wandering
around the desert and I was puzzled how little appreciation or respect there
was for the desert environment. After 2 years there I thought I needed to get
into an architect’s office which lasted 2 years until a recession put me out of
work. I had a few garden projects that I was working on so by chance I became a
landscape designer and I have been working for myself ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">There were a few
landscape architects in town and scores of incompetent landscape designers; I
worked for an awful design-build company for a few weeks as a student which was
enlightening. It was apparent that landscape design was a situation where one
could spend an enormous amount of money and when finished you could still have
all the problems you started with. I saw an opportunity for a landscape
designer who could actually understand and solve site problems; architecture school
was all about solving problems. One project led to another and I’ve been
working for myself since 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="color: orange;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Q: Please talk about your feelings for the landscape
and your ambitions within the field of landscape architecture. </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I never had any
intentions of becoming an LA, in fact I have never had a landscape class in my
life, when I started my goal was to bring the desert back into the city. Over
the years I invented the desert vernacular that should have been there but wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">My design philosophy
originally if I had one, was to make my projects say something about the site
and the region and make them look like they “fit”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">When I started I had
a few observations that influenced my thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">The public mostly
hated the desert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Billions were spent
each year to make the desert look like somewhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Landscape
development was a situation where one could send an enormous amount of money
and when finished still have all the problems you started with. It was mostly an
exercise in eyewash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">In the ‘80s, when
the new robber-barons were building their fantasy developments in the desert LA’s
would stand in line to be their stooges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I wasn’t ready for
how destructive the landscape industry was to the natural environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: How
did your design philosophy develop, and how does it relate to the projects you
choose now to work on?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I learned from
observation and trial and error. I started by looking at built work and asking
myself “what’s wrong with this picture?” then I would try to find a better way
to do something. I believe not being trained in landscape design gave me fresh
eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I started using
native plants just too visually repair and connect a site to the larger
landscape (not knowing anything about them other than they looked cool and a
lot of them were scary and would hurt you).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">After observing the
benefits of using native plants I decided that all landscapes that weren’t
using native plants were displacing habitat and were destructive and probably
nature hating. Native plants to me represent the state-of-the- art of the evolution
of a place and they are the timeline that connects the site to the history of
the region. If you want to say something about the site you need to us plants
from the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I like projects that
are fun and challenging, the most important element of a project is the client.
I want a client who has a good design sense and has high expectations for the
project. I only take on residential
and cultural projects. I have a small office so I can be choosy in what I take
on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: Is there something in your career that altered
your view of landscape design? </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Observing the symbiotic
connection between plants and their unique pollinators was amazing and educational.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">A pilgrimage to the
Alhambra was pivotal to my development, as I walked around I thought that “none
of these plants are 900 years old. A few years later I was thinking about the
Court of the Lions and I couldn’t remember anything about the plantings even
though I took several rolls of film. I had to get out my pictures, it was no
wonder I had not remembered them, they were insignificant compared to the
space. The lesson was that plants are incidental to the garden and it’s not a
garden without hardscape. The garden should work as a space without plants,
which is probably why I like ruins so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: How
do you approach the starting point of a design?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">There are two
aspects to the design, the first being the clients program requirements and the
other is the site. The starting point is understanding the site, its physical
nature, the off-site influences, its limitations and opportunities, the zoning
restrictions and loopholes. If you understand these things you can tell the
client “I understand what you want but these are the things that you need!”
then we try to do both things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">When I first walk
onto the site I rub my hands together and say “what do the neighbors have that
we can use?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: What is your ideal client?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I want a client who
wants to accomplish something special, thinks garden design is an art,
appreciates the local environment and are open to ideas; it’s a bonus if they
are a little eccentric. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: You have an especial affinity with the desert and
the plants that grow there, how do you use these plants in the design?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"> After observing my early native plant
gardens I noticed that with native plants you get more than you bargained for.
They bring along an entourage of characters that I call “pollinators and
predators” that activate the garden. I discovered that by using the right
plants you tap into the food-chain and your gardens become habitats. When I
learned this, my gardens started to get interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">In the early years I
also used native plants to make a point because they were not appreciated by the
public or my peers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="color: orange;">Q: Feel free to
elaborate as much as you like! </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I would typical take
ordinary vacant-lot plants and showcase them against architectural elements,
which I would refer to as my “Weeds & Walls” style. I see the architectural
elements as the state-of the-art of my evolution as a designer and the native
plants represent nature at her best. This juxtaposition of man & nature
meeting as equals is what my work was all about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">What I find unbelievable
about this pursuit is that it changed the landscape industry and that my web page
tells me that people from 40 countries a month look me up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: And when you are not working in a desert zone,
what is your philosophy of planting?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I try to use native
plants to attract the local wildlife, which I find delights client almost more
than any of the ‘designed’ elements of the garden. Native plant nurseries are
quite common now. When I first wanted to use lesser known natives I had to
collect the seed myself and have plants grown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: When
you design, does the hard landscaping grow from the planting, or vice versa. Or
do they arrive together in your mind?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">For me the hardscape
come first because my gardens are architectural by nature. I think about the hardscape
and tree placement together. Specific understory and accent plants come later.
I work in a very harsh environment, “the old west”, I’m happy if I have the
basic elements of: walls, trees, dirt, shadows and cactus, any thing else is
icing on the cake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: You
work in a country that has huge spaces, and huge skies- not usual in the United
Kingdom - how does this affect your design thinking?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">This is ‘borrowed
vista’ paradise. The Sonoran desert is so distinctive and unique that you can
represent the desert with a few plants in a court yard or physical meld with a
magnificent panoramic scene when the property line is actually a few feet
beyond the pool. An adjacent mountain range can look like it belongs to your
client if you do things right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I see my job as that
of a set designer; I create space and the illusion of space. I screen out bad
views and reinforce good views. If a space has a good geometry to it I enhance
it, if it has a bad geometry, I try to overpower it and impose a new order to
it. I seem to work with 2 types of space. Enclosing and sheltering or open and
expansive where we relate to a larger site, and most projects have both types
of space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I have always considered
our harsh sunlight as another building material that needs to be considered. It
is so strong that it washes out color and flattens texture; you need to use it
to your advantage. Using forms to develop shadows, using strong colors and
cactus that create their own shadows are lessons I have learned from Mexican
architects. What I love about walls is that they pick up shadows off the ground
and hold them up where you can see them. I think of this as the architecture of
shadows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Another concern you
need to think about is what materials look good as they come out of the dirt,
stone is first, then cast-in-place concrete then masonry walls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: Can
you talk about how the landscape profession has changed over the years – and
has that affected you?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">It is more aware of
environmental concerns now and not as destructive to the planet as it used to
be. I think the profession is a little late to the table on this, in the west,
where water is such a major concern; municipalities had to come up with
regulations to protect themselves from landscape designers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">The biggest change
has been the level of design has skyrocketed as seen by the quality of the
national ASLA design awards. You have to work really hard to receive a design
award these days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I was the oddball
when I started and over time I have gone from being a heretic to a hero without
doing anything different. I read in an article about me that said I had to
build my stage before I could act on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: You
were Steve Martino and Associates; how did you work as a team?</span> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">At one time I hade 9
employees and I was more of an administrator than designer and I did not like
it, since then I have tried to stay small and I do all the design work myself and
I have staff members to help with production work, I always look for ideas and input from my staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: orange;">Q: and why the name ‘Cactus City Design’?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Several people have
asked me why I am changing my firm name to Cactus City Design after nearly 30
years of being Steve Martino & Associates. The truth is that SM&A was
not my first or second choice for a name. I wanted something that referred to
what I do or to design. My first company name was “Outdoor Space”. I decided to
market myself to architects as a consultant, but after the fourth consecutive
architect said “what the hell is outdoor space?” it was clear that I needed
another approach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">Somewhere I read
that the Apaches had a word for “the wet wind from the south”. These life-sustaining
summer rains that come up from the Gulf of Mexico to make life possible here
would be the perfect name for a company that wanted to embrace the native flora
in its designs. I never found the word so I became SM&A as a default. For
years I had thought about a name change; SM&A has worked well for me but I
always wanted a name with “studio” or “design” in it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">One evening as I was
driving across the desert back to Phoenix from one of my Palm Springs projects,
somewhere between Bagdad and Quartzsite where the highway department puts out
the water barrels, I stopped to let my radiator have a drink. As it cooled down
I walked off down a dirt road to explore the ruins of an old building which
might have once been a gas station. Walking through the ruins was like rooting
through the carcass of an old decaying Saguaro looking for it’s “boots”. I
found a bullet-riddled sign that looked like it said “Cactus City”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a dream about something that I had completely forgotten about that happened
over forty years earlier when I was a teenager at Arizona Boys Ranch. I had the
job of ranch wrangler and had 24 horses I had to tend to. One of my duties was
to take the other kids out riding in the desert. I used to visit a crusty
hermit type who lived in a “baked ham” trailer. He had an assortment of
wheel-less car bodies, some metal shade structures, quite a cactus garden and a
hand-painted sign that said “cactus city”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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delinquent to a rural ranch hand was quite a life-changing experience. My
favorite pastime was riding in the nearby San Tan Mountains. I think these
excursions got me interested in the desert and led me to become a landscape
architect. Now, decades later, having “cactus city” pop up in a dream two weeks
after my trip across the desert had to be a sign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you could design anywhere in the world with an endless budget, where and what
would you design?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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designing houses in Majorca and next would be roof top gardens in London,
because I think that’s the most interesting work coming out of the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #49321b; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This idea started over too many beers as i recall. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #49321b; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">It started as a lark and I like it so much that I think I will do this on all my future projects except I'll take it more seriously. </span></div>
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</div>Lorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13612650593231153609noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585760908850620023.post-55006670613840384542011-08-31T09:52:00.009-07:002011-12-20T13:47:30.528-07:00Phoenix Residence, 1976<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Early Lessons</span></div>
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This is one of my first projects, designed in 1976, before I became a landscape architect. I used to use this project to start off lectures because it was such a dramatic change made by a few bold strokes. This was a simple front yard make-over but there were several lessons I learned from it. The most important lesson is that <span style="font-weight: bold;">you make your own projects.</span><br />
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This client’s only requirement was to add 3 foot tall masonry columns spaced 8 feet apart with a chain hung between them along the sidewalk to keep children from cutting across the corner of his property. I said if you are willing to spend that much money why not consolidate the masonry into something that would have more value and affect the way you live by creating a usable outdoor space.<br />
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I drew the sketch showing 3 new elements:<br />
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A new 3 foot high courtyard wall that created an entry courtyard.<br />
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The silly 2 foot high wall that was just in front of the house was raised a foot higher to give it some purpose and make it part of the courtyard.<br />
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Finally, the ramped side walk that curved to the front door was replaced with a new sidewalk and steps that emphasized the vertical climb to the house from the street.<br />
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To exaggerate this the excavated soil was built up against the far end of the courtyard wall and held down at the new walk level to make the courtyard wall 4 1/2 feet high on the outside next to the walk. I was quite worried about this wall height because the building code only allowed a 3 foot high wall in a front yard and I was concerned that I would be paying for new steps if the city rejected the courtyard wall height. The inspector never said a word about the height, which encouraged me to push my luck on following projects.<br />
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Another lesson is the client can tell you what they want and your job is to say <b>I understand what you want but this is what you need</b>. To say this you need to understand the problems and opportunities of the site. It seemed that <b>an ambivalent client is an open check book </b>to do what you want. Even when working with a sophisticated client you must absolutely solve all clients’ program requirements which is the easiest part of the process; the hard part is <b>refining the design to make it art</b>.<br />
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I tried to create a native looking landscape but the nursery industry wasn’t ready for my projects yet, it took plants from 4 continents to mimic the native landscape for this garden. To make the gardens I wanted it was necessary for me to <b>collect seeds of native plants and have them grown</b> for my projects.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiea3b3dLMRDmWRF22mrjV3bwntRvM-2vDWeL12tIrAxxJbb1FtnZ1nCOX_uMDzaA63wkGmWvZhaBRAHcb_wCx4ok2tFmkHZ1TxLFfcaTjcIQQ1dcJ01Ku353Earu_x-qUdY9vTnzL8BhA/s1600/sma003-adj.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647067855549655522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiea3b3dLMRDmWRF22mrjV3bwntRvM-2vDWeL12tIrAxxJbb1FtnZ1nCOX_uMDzaA63wkGmWvZhaBRAHcb_wCx4ok2tFmkHZ1TxLFfcaTjcIQQ1dcJ01Ku353Earu_x-qUdY9vTnzL8BhA/s1000/sma003-adj.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 408px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 640px;" /></a>Preliminary design showing entry courtyard<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPeme-CjS5EPFDBy8rTTmrCN3sCTJwWhG2TRSEN2zDxDtx_1lf65s00nwZoAVEV8iopCxajoekhw2MpIoPwt3Tvjxu7H0SzZhPCYEWJgnuEDSzsNsmBYdwjlnkb9Cns9SrW18NPIJEag/s1600/sma004-adj.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647067857405685186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPeme-CjS5EPFDBy8rTTmrCN3sCTJwWhG2TRSEN2zDxDtx_1lf65s00nwZoAVEV8iopCxajoekhw2MpIoPwt3Tvjxu7H0SzZhPCYEWJgnuEDSzsNsmBYdwjlnkb9Cns9SrW18NPIJEag/s1000/sma004-adj.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 422px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 640px;" /></a>After this was built I noticed that the scorelines of the sidewalk were misaligned with my new walk. This is something that I didn't think of when I was doing this and it has bothered me for the last 30 years. Design is about edges and how one material meets another and here I didn't consider the sidewalk as part of my design. This never happened again. </div>
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Another example of making your own projects was the entry to Arid Zone Trees Nursery. The client asked me to just design an entry gate to their farm and after much thoughts and scribbles I came up with my ‘homage to Barragan’ entry design that garnered me a national ASLA honor award. This ‘little entry gate’ has been published in several countries and Phase 2 of this project won a second National ASLA award.</div>
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