About The Author
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About The Author
With +40 years in practice the author has been involved in landscape architecture, community planning and historic preservation. He has a passion for landscape architecture, community planning, and historic preservation with degrees in each from Auburn University.
The author strives to capture and explain history by drawing pencil sketches and designing. Through his books, including A Designer’s Sketchbook, Flowers, The Big Book Of Cool Stuff, and Recollections of a Southern Landscape Architect, he introduces his experience and advice as well as stories about landscape architecture and Southern living.
AUTHOR’S MISSION
The author’s goal is to educate those who wish to become professional designers as well as schoolchildren utilizing elements of history, design, and actual design experience. Being trained in landscape architecture and having the burning satisfaction to help create graphic material for communications, the author seeks to contribute to developing educational material that enhances the practice between the aesthetics and the practical.The author’s goal is to educate those who wish to become professional designers as well as schoolchildren utilizing elements of history, design, and actual design experience. Being trained in landscape architecture and having the burning satisfaction to help create graphic material for communications, the author seeks to contribute to designing educational material that enhances the practice between the aesthetics and the practical.