February 2009 – The Whispering Crane Institute

Designing an Identity

A quick landscape study for a client. This is part of a much larger conceptual idea I have for frontage in front of 3 office buildings. These 3 buildings and 2 others form a “campus like setting” that is divided by one public two lane road. 1 building on one side of the street and… Continue reading Designing an Identity

From the Moleskine (11)

Design Principles (06)

I wanted to go a little further on this idea of thinking beyond the ground plane. I keep coming back to this for a reason. Beginning designers, intermediate designers, and designers who are just not very good get stuck here . . . here on this surface and cannot think beyond this dimension. They cannot… Continue reading Design Principles (06)

Design Principles(04)

Here’s a look at someone who followed a very different type of design principles and a way of designing landscapes . . . art that become art in the landscape. Above is the tapestry work by the Brazilian artist and great landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, the man was an incredible unique talent, a real… Continue reading Design Principles(04)

WCI Workshops

Sticky: 08/23/10 update: In the Works We will be at the CENTS Show again in 2011, definitely doing the 1 day Stone Workshop on Sunday. I am not sure about lectures or other workshops, but I have to make decisions fairly quickly. We have several ideas for dry-stack stone Workshops and I am working on… Continue reading WCI Workshops

Design Principles (03)

After the previous post on the 10 basic principles of design-in my opinion the 10 basic principles, I felt a follow-through was needed. So here we go I wanted to discuss this business about: Point Line Planes Forms Connecting This work by starting out with a point in space, we take this single point and… Continue reading Design Principles (03)

Design Principles(02)

All rightie then, coming off the heels of the previous post with the good Doctor here comes some more wackiness. What I have below is what I thought was the most beginner of beginning design. Where all Landscape Design starts. I have not touched or amended any of this. I wanted to show exactly what… Continue reading Design Principles(02)

Design Principles (1)

Here’s a video from Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden of Iowa State University discussing “principles of landscape design”. In my mind this is more controversy concerning design principles. Going back to my earlier posting on just what in the hell are design principle, beginning design principles, and the biggie . . . what are advanced design… Continue reading Design Principles (1)

Stimulus

Last week Washington D.C. was in an uproar to pass the stimulus bill, it was hurry, hurry hurry-time is of the essence. It is critical that we pass this bill immediately or there will be dire consequences. Heck I read Senator Brown had to leave his Mother’s funeral in Ohio and fly back to D.C.… Continue reading Stimulus