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Ernst Glaeser
Where is the problem?
In the very old days both was done by the Garden and Landscape Artist, strong background in horticulture and/or architecture.
When I graduated, in Germany, it was Garden and Landscape Architecture.
Look at it that way, when you blow-up a garden plan you have a great landscape plan. When you scale down a landscape plan to garden size you most probably have nothing left.
I call myself sometimes a balcony box architect. The Japanese way of bonsai and moribana are idealistic landscapes. Here we all experience the human scale, a thing I’m missing in most gigantic landscape and urban design.
So, where comes the LA into the picture? Right now I,m working on 24 sqkm.