Design Builds and Landscape Gardening
The site pictured above began as a sad, interstitial space on the campus of a large, land-grant university in North Carolina. The university commissioned its landscape architecture students to redesign the area and to construct their new design.
Design Builds and
Landscape Gardening
“Landscape gardening” is primarily concerned with aesthetics and may be more akin to “highly sophisticated landscaping” than to “landscape architecture.” Landscape gardening does not typically involve hydrology, earth-work, elevations, or networks (sanitary sewer, storm water, domestic water, etc.), and it does not typically involve complex infrastructure.
“Design Builds” are generally comparatively small-scale design projects, which may or may not involve the elements specified above. The defining attribute of “design builds” is that they are designs that are installed by the team or the company that designs them. There is considerable overlap between “design-builds,” “landscape architecture,” “landscape gardening.” The labels are imprecise and they’re used loosely.

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