Landscape.is… Responsible

One of the biggest changes currently taking place in all aspects of Architecture is the swing toward sustainable thinking. Put simply this entails making decisions in your project work based on a desire to better the environment. In Landscape Architecture this is in some ways easier as it does not incorporate designing buildings! However, the onus is on us to design with an eye for the future, not allowing our work to greedily eat up tomorrow’s resources whilst only providing for today’s needs. Remember that nine times out of ten your project will have a long term effect on its surroundings, (something you need to design for) but ten times out of ten it will have a long term effect on our environment.

Ben Morgan

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