Journal / Field Notes
Notes on landscape practice
Site reading, planting, materials, climate, process and professional development.
Plan before landscape
Before choosing a visual language, I read scale, circulation, building–open space relationships, levels, entrances and constraints. This first reading shows where the landscape must connect, slow down, provide…
Planting is a climate decision
A planting palette is not a list of attractive species. It is a relationship between climate, water, soil, shade, maintenance, seasonality and use. Protected microclimates and open coastal…
From analysis to visual clarity
Plans, diagrams, 3D models and renders are not separate decorations. Each should make one design decision easier to understand: movement, planting structure, material character, comfort or implementation logic.