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StudioCK and Kristin Faurest are now friends 4 years, 8 months ago
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dipti kharel and Kristin Faurest are now friends 4 years, 8 months ago
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BEIJING LEEDSCAPE LANDSCAPE and Kristin Faurest are now friends 4 years, 8 months ago
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Kristin Faurest commented on the post, How to Draw Landscapes (Like a Landscape Architect) 5 years, 2 months ago
We use Linescapes as preparatory material for our intensive seminar in Japanese garden arts here at Portland Japanese Garden. Because our program attracts landscape practitioners of all types — some are contractors or horticulturalists, for example, and not all of them draw — it’s great preparation and really helps reduce the phobia of doing the…[Read more]
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Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, Fostering the Future 6 years ago
Low-maintenance is a sought-after quality in landscapes — as well as in architecture, vehicles, pets, hairstyles, flooring, the personalities of prospective mates, and pretty much everything else. We use the word […]
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Kristin Faurest commented on the post, Authentic Nature is Our Greatest Amenity 6 years ago
Here’s hoping you’ll be an inspiration! Keep up the great work.
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Kristin Faurest commented on the post, Authentic Nature is Our Greatest Amenity 6 years ago
So well written and what a brilliant idea! I’m hesitating to ask, but just in glancing at the photos that show the houses, I am guessing…not as much stewardship and care went into the architecture? Looks like the usual McMansions, but perhaps I’m snap-judging.
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Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, The Divinity of Detail: Lessons from the Japanese Garden 6 years, 3 months ago
The phrase “God is in the details” is, with uncertainty, attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But whether it came from the Modernist great or someone else, there is something about the play of detail in the cre […]
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Leave it to Miles to cut to the chase of giving focus to the details. Seems like Thelonious Monk’s title, ‘Straight, No Chaser’ might be an apt metaphor too–although it would be to explain how ‘straightforwardness’ is not always obvious in garden design. Your article was so well written and informative that I didn’t even mind the little bit of promotion for the biz.
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Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, Listening to Nature – and Each Other 6 years, 6 months ago
Landscape architects — like many designers — regularly engage with what are commonly called ‘wicked’ problems. Wicked not in the sense of evil, but in the other definition: a problem that is difficult or tho […]
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