Architects design buildings. Landscape architects design the space the buildings live in and the spaces in between.
“To be a landscape architect you have to be part architect, part engineer, part sociologist, part biologist, part botanist and part geologist,” said San Diego’s Vicki Estrada of Estrada Land Planning. “What makes a city great is not an Eiffel Tower here or an Empire State Building there, it’s what happens in between.”
A good example of what happens around and in between is on the San Diego City College campus, on the grounds of two new educational dwellings; the Math and Social Sciences building, designed by RNT Architects; and the Science building, designed by Harley Ellis Devereaux; with landscape architecture by San Diego’s Spurlock Poirier.
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