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Kristin Faurest posted a new activity comment

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:11:49 +0000

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]

In reply to - Linescapes wrote a new post, How to Draw Landscapes (Like a Landscape Architect) There is a big difference between taking a snapshot with your smartphone or taking time to draw something: the former you will […]

Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, Fostering the Future

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:54:36 +0000

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 […]

Kristin Faurest posted a new activity comment

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:54:58 +0000

Here’s hoping you’ll be an inspiration! Keep up the great work.

In reply to - Meade Mitchell, PLA wrote a new post, Authentic Nature is Our Greatest Amenity On a sticky Saturday morning, a pickerel frog lets out a slow, steady snore as he perches proudly in his newly found, tiered-pond […]

Kristin Faurest posted a new activity comment

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:00:48 +0000

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.

Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, The Divinity of Detail: Lessons from the Japanese Garden

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:03:59 +0000

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 […]

Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, Listening to Nature – and Each Other

Wed, 30 May 2018 03:50:41 +0000

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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Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:28:13 +0000