What Trends will Influence Garden Design and Landscape Architecture in 2013?

[Alan Ray, RLA]

trends come and go, they become tired and dated….

any of you remember the bradford pear trend?

 

 

[Anonymous]

I sure do. All the ones in my designs in the early nineties which were beautiful in 2000 are all broken and battered now.

[Alan Ray, RLA]

My observation is that designs that are understated, simple and elegant remain a long time…these usually have a strong natural component. After all, isn’t it true that about the best we can do is to imitate nature?

And don’t get me started on sustainability….

[Alan Ray, RLA]

Imagine what the ones I used in the early 80’s look ike now…

 

[anthony c jefferies]

The wheel has already been invented

Along with almost everything else and if as a writer (Hemingway) I thought that nothing I did was worthwhile or as a designer I thought that all I did was operate a sophisticated rubber stamp I would give up.

I find the attitude expressed by Henry Cohen exactly the defeatist attitude that makes landscape architects slaves to trends.

[Anonymous]

They’re probably stumps with Callery Pear suckers growing out of them.

[Alan Ray, RLA]

yeah, they look like death on a soda cracker!

I remember having lunch with Garret Eckbo many years ago and he was laughing at all the design experiminting he and his peers were doing with plastics newly on the scene in the 50’s….I was encouraged by the fact that even some of the greatest sometimes don’t have a clue what they are doing….

I suppose that’s why we call it a practice….

 

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