Self Improvement: How to Think Like a Landscape Architect

Self Improvement: How to Think Like a Landscape Architect

Author: ABC May 12, 2021 Duration: 9:07
Most people understand what architects do, but fewer understand what is involved in Landscape Architecture and what kind of skills we bring to their work. Elizabeth Mossop, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney explains how to see places in all of their natural and human complexity.

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