Daybook: Reading the California Landscape. Calling All Students of Professors Laurie, Litton and McBride
In Spring 1989, my second semester into the landscape architecture graduate (MLA) program at Cal Berkeley, I took the California Landscapes seminar with professors Michael Laurie, Burt Litton, Joe McBride. Burt was the great uncle of the guy I had just broken up with, so I was hesitant about...
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: Happy International Women’s Day: Project 2, The Beat Memorial Park, North Beach
So I toiled away with the clock project and then presented my design to the jury. For anyone who has never been to design school, just imagine a time when you thought you had a fantastic idea, you hadn’t eaten or slept in two days, and you shared this...
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...