Issue5_Fall2015

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

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