history

History of Landscape Design: An Introduction

START HERE! Moving through the folds and undulations of history is admittedly daunting yet exhilarating. This section of TELCS explores...

Place, Plato & Aristotle

Discussion on classical references from Plato and Aristotle.

Gold Ridge: Luther Burbank Experiment Farm

Offering brief observations of the Luther Burbank Experiment Farm

Beatrix Farrand

How Beatrix Farrand became a landscape architect during The Gilded Age

Victorian Arizona Gardens in California

After living nearly sixty years in California’s Bay Area, I finally paid a visit to Stanford University's Arizona Garden. Why did it...

19th Century Rural Cemeteries

introduction What comes to mind when thinking about cemetery landscapes? Old church graveyards where ghost stories are told at midnight?...

The Sun King Also Rises in the 21st Century

Admittedly, this might be a stretch of the imagination, but stay with me as I walk along this path. It is a meandering one, but there...