REALM Collaborative Talk Reflection

As a brand new practice started in January of this year, REALM Collaborative is going through the challenges of establishing credibility in a field saturated with well qualified competitors. One of the reasons Brian Bernstein, Carmine Russo Jr., and Nick Gilliland decided to start a new practice was they saw a pattern of high profile projects in the […]

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ATLAS Lab talk with Kimberly Garza Reflection

My favorite phrase from Kim’s talk was “THINK BIG, start small.” This statement perfectly encompasses her career leading up to the founding of her practice, Atlas Lab, with Andrew tenBrink in 2011; now Atlas Lab Inc., a full-service practice. After a Bachelor’s Degree from UC Berkeley and a Master’s from Harvard GSD in landscape architecture, Kim’s […]

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Reflection on Shawn Balon’s Talk

I can relate to many of Shawn Balon’s experiences with his introduction to the design profession as a freshman in college as after hearing his talk, I realized that our undergraduate experiences run rather parallel with each other. My experience as an architecture student and Shawn’s as a landscape architecture student have a lot more […]

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What is Landscape Architecture?

Landscape architecture is a lot like architecture in that a designer uses tools of representation to convey an idea, concept, or potential reality. The difference is that the tools palette of a Landscape Architect include plants and ecology, hydrology, environment, grading, and even time as opposed what an architect uses, which is more along the […]

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|WHERE IS NATURE?| LAR 525 – 01

Where do I seek and find nature? Why? In order for me to properly answer the question of where I find nature, I need to first define what I believe nature is and is not. Nature is everything that existed before, will exist after or is not created by man. Now even though I believe […]

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|WHY I LOVE ARCHITECTURE|

Architecture allows our dreams to become reality. It is the practice of giving inhabitable form to ideas and concepts. Architecture has the power to… change how we live… improve our public spaces… create new landscapes… and discover new territories.

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