Fred
Fred began his landscape architectural career in 1980 in Newfoundland, leading neighbourhood improvement planning, landscape architectural and environmental design projects for corporate and public sector clients. In the recession of 1982 his career took a major change in direction when he ventured outside the comfort zone of being gainfully employed into the world of private enterprise and started a landscape architectural consultancy and a design-build business. He is a member of the CSLA, CNLA and their component organizations.
While designing and building private residential and commercial projects he developed a deep understanding of the challenges that surround the process of helping people weave their landscape and garden creation dreams and turn them into reality. Through these experiences his approach to landscape architecture and his life was forever changed!
He is an advocate of the concept that sustainable land practices enable natural and built systems to work together to protect and enhance the ability of landscapes to provide services such as climate regulation, clean air and water, and improved quality of life.
Today his design work is found in downtown entertainment districts, private gardens, in corporate landscapes, in the developed natural attractions of national parks in Canada and Scotland, in memorial gardens and in linear parks that weave their way through spectacular coastal landscapes.
Fred is often asked to speak about creating beauty in our cities and private gardens. He has won awards for his design work that reflect his passion for creating beautiful landscapes. He is currently helping a national non-profit health advocacy organization create a series of “Gardens of Hope™” in the provincial capital cities across Canada.
Landscape architecture is the profession committed to the creation of meaningful and vital outdoor places and to the sustainable management of our environment.
“What, then, should the term landscape architecture be taken to mean? It will be understood here to mean the art - or the science, if preferred - of arranging land, together with the spaces and objects upon it, for safe, efficient, healthful, pleasant human use.”
Norman T. Newton, Design on the Land, 1971
Garden design is the art and process of designing creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of design and in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license.
Site planning refers to the organizational stage of the landscape design process. It involves the organization of land use zoning, access, circulation, privacy, security, shelter, land drainage, and other factors. This is done by arranging the compositional elements of landform, planting, water, buildings and paving and building.
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
Landscape Architecture : Garden Design : Site Planning : Project Management