Category: Daybook Pages

Daybook: Therapeutic Gardens and How Time Heals

For the final design project in Chip’s studio, we were given the challenge to design the landscape for a yet-to-be-built AIDS Hospice in San Francisco. This was my first introduction to designing a therapeutic landscape, long before all the great books that are now out on the subject, so...

Daybook: Happy Ultimate Pi Day!: The Mathematics of Park Design

In honor of one of my favorite numbers, I’m skipping ahead in the daybooks, past my musings on Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” and my cartoon augmented scribing of Ferlinghetti’s “Pictures of the Gone World,” to the next landscape design project, a park between Lake Merritt and the freeway in Oakland....

Daybook: Page One, Day One of a Design Education

While I’ve kept a journal of sorts on and off since I was a kid,it wasn’t until I started graduate school in landscape architecture at U.C. Berkeley that it became my constant companion. So I’ve decided to start these weekly sketchbook shares by working through my design education. I...