‘Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on the land?’
(Dan Kiley – Landscape Architect).

Landscape architecture can contribute a great deal to the success of a building project. An honest and open collaboration between client, architect and landscape architect can ensure any creative tensions evolve into an exciting solution. The process of landscape design is multi-layered and complex, but the rewards are significant: as such landscape architecture should educate, disturb and reconnect people to their own nature through Nature.

My approach is to first appreciate what the client and architect are trying to achieve; and then test and challenge their ambitions. By so doing the resultant design is enriched and more robust. As such the landscape design organizes the site, sets off the buildings, and makes useful spaces which benefits users and visitors. A landscape should be about the people who will experience it and not any particular ‘style’: and in an increasingly busy world we all need green space to relax. At the same time the landscape design should preserve and enhance the environment so that wider benefits are achieved.