LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE
        Projects throughout California, Hawaii and the Pacific Rim,  with Barron Eldridge
 

 

Table of Contents

 1. What Does He Do?

 2. Landscape Architecture
3. Related Professions
4. Stages of Work
5. Getting Started

6. Contact Information

7. Professional History


 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related Professions:
Emerging: During the last thirty years, the profession of Landscape Architecture took quantum leaps to meet complex times. As the demand and technology for engineering, planning and biological necessity increased, several disciplines spun out of the profession to form specialized disciplines of their own.

Early Training: For years, Architects, Engineers and Landscape Architects were trained in and practiced with many skills that are now included in services provided by these relatively new professions.  That's why Architects, Engineers and Landscape Architects often find themselves with work that often overlap, and why government reviewing agencies tend to have conflicting positions on this matter.

Outside Consultants and Specialists: Many Landscape Architects have settled into a specialized field of the profession, such as: community development and related government work, commercial housing, recreation or in specific market's such as: golf course design,  school campus development and destination resort hotels.

Consultants: Are required to step in and out of the project as conditions demand, and they're drawn from many fields such as: a Biology, Geology, specialty Engineering, Paleontology, Arboriculture, Soils Science, etc.  

One time, while working on the Island of Kauai, the team needed to find a Kahuna (Hawaiian Priest). We found ancient remains buried in the beach and the local workers refused to work until the Priest blessed the land.  Another time, during some massive grading in southern California, the contractor dug up the remains of a Saber Tooth Tiger and a Mastodon. We contacted the University of California's Department of Paleontology for assistance and ended up conceptualizing a museum for these finds.

Where did Barry fit into this?: Barry's career was formed during the 1970 & 80's; a period of rapid growth in communications and heightened public awareness in an ever smaller world.

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