Lawrence Halprin Biography: Becoming a Landscape Architect [3 of 10]
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Aerodynamic: Dylan Parker (left) with James Norton. Photo: Steven Siewert

Marketing specialist Dylan Parker, 27 , and landscape architect James Norton, 29, met at a paper plane competition in 2008. It was the start of a journey that inspired the film Paper Planes.

James Norton: We have both been fascinated with paper planes since we were kids. There is nothing like that feeling of seeing it get caught on an updraft and soar above your eyes. A passion for paper planes are hereditary. You take that family design down with you, the one that Dad showed you. The most common is the classic, thin-tipped, wide-wing version.

I met Dylan in 2008 at a paper plane competition at the University of Canberra, where we were both studying. He had a suitcase full of paper plane shapes of every variety. I had never been to a proper contest before, but there was Dylan with a suitcase, with [padded sections] moulded to the shape of his planes.

There were the flat ones that spend the most time in the air and the short bullet-shaped ones that fly like javelins. The designs were incredible. I just looked at him and the planes and I thought, "That guy is just like me, he likes planes just as much as I do and he is totally willing to cop all the shit that comes with it." It was love at first flight.

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While we were throwing at the university everyone was looking at us like we were freaks in a "Why are you taking this so seriously?" kind of way.

We had only just got to know each other when Dylan got sick. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour and had to go back to Newcastle to be with his mum [former NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker] and dad.

He was in hospital for weeks with a golf ball-sized brain tumour they thought might be cancerous.

We still weren't that close as we had only really just met, but we kept in touch through Facebook. I thought it was best to give him some space with his family.

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Q I inherited a picture from a great-aunt, but I don't remember ever seeing it in her home. It's a mountain landscape with trees. It looks like a name is scratched into the lower right hand corner, as well as "48." It measures 24 by 30 inches, with its gold frame. Any help you can give me identifying and appraising this work would be appreciated.

A After living for 20-plus years in California, I'm finally beginning to recognize and identify certain landscape features in art. Mountain ranges, representations of trees and plants, and patterns of sunlight and shadow all help identify the work of California's en plein-air artists.

The French words en plein-air (literally "in open air") signify a work painted directly from nature and capturing an artist's immediate impression of a scene, rather than one done in a studio and based on studies. The development of the plein-air style coincided with mid-19th-century advances in photographic and moving-picture technology, which helped popularize the idea of capturing a scene at a particular moment.

One of California's most prolific plein-air artists was John Augustus Dominique. It is his graffito signature and date on the lower right of your painting.

After his birth in Sweden in 1893, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, when Dominique was still young. His father trained as a florist and worked as a landscape architect.

Dominique himself first was employed as a typesetter and cartoonist in Oregon, where he also took art lessons. In 1914, he moved to California to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) and the San Francisco Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute). At the 1915 Panama- Pacific International Exposition he saw works by Claude Monet and Edvard Munch. He continued to study art, and his biography indicates that most of his teachers were impressionists.

After military service in Maryland, Dominique moved to Santa Barbara, where his father had designed the gardens for a large estate. He lived and painted on Montecito's Ward Estate for nearly a decade and developed a love for the mountains near Ojai and surrounding areas, now recognized as a frequent subject of his paintings.

Your painting depicts one of the highest peaks in the Topatopa Mountains, near Dominique's Santa Barbara home. It illustrates an oak-tree landscape with Cobblestone Mountain in the distance. To judge from the foliage on the trees and the proliferation of red poppies, your work was most likely done in the spring or summer of 1948.

Dominique continued working, exhibiting and teaching art until his death, in 1994. Interestingly, an infection damaged his sight in 1975, and works painted after that date are done in an abstract style he had abandoned decades earlier.

This 1948 oil on canvas is a classic example of Dominique's work. Over the decades he was living in Santa Barbara, he likely painted hundreds of views of these mountains and canyons, capturing the light of the moment in each one.

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Quad-City families may get their first introduction to Bettendorf's long-awaited Forest Grove Park this fall.

Bettendorf park board members got a detailed look at the project's preliminary phase of work Wednesday night as Scott Crawford, senior partner and landscape architect with RDG Planning & Design of Des Moines, presented the plans.

The $1.4 million first phase of the project will be completed in two stages, and will develop what Crawford referred to as the community corner of the park, that will serve as a neighborhood park for adjacent subdivisions.

It will include 25 parking stalls, an open-air shelter that will seat up to 20 people, a playground for children ages 2-10, a half-court basketball court and a circular path that surrounds the southeast corner of the park and eventually will connect with the rest of the park's trail system.

This will be the gateway into the whole park from the south edge, said Crawford, who began designing the space in 2011.

While Crawford said he does not think the first phase of work will attract regional attention, overall plans for the 100-acre park will create something that the Quad-City community does not yet have.

Ideas for the park include a large greenspace, an adventure course, an amphitheater, a community building, an enclosed shelter, restoration of Spencer Creek and a winter plaza with opportunities for cold-weather sports.

The park, which Bettendorf Mayor Bob Gallagher has referred to as a wow project, will cost up to $20 million and will be completed in stages with the assistance of grant funding, Steve Grimes, the citys parks and recreation director, said.

Between 2016 and 2021, the city plans to borrow $2.1 million in bonds for work on the park.

A future elementary school in the Pleasant Valley Community School District is planned to be built adjacent to the park.

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Vehicles turn onto West Broadway Boulevard from U.S. Highway 550 in Bloomfield on Monday. (Jon Austria The Daily Times)

BLOOMFIELD City councilors on Monday night unanimously supported plans for a greener look to Bloomfield's main thoroughfare.

At the council meeting, Greg Miller, landscape architect for Albuquerque-based Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller, presented his firm's final design plans for two miles of landscaped medians and parkways along U.S. Highway 64 and at the intersection of U.S. Highways 64 and 550.

Miller told councilors the enhancements to the most traveled stretch in the city will be an attractive addition. He has worked on the design of the landscaping project for about a year, an endeavor that has cost the city $50,000.

City officials are also hoping the investment will bring more businesses to Bloomfield, allowing the city to collect more gross receipts taxes.

"It's exciting. We're getting to the point as we move toward construction," Miller said.

Decorative pots were featured in the design plans Milled showed councilors.

Discussion over adding decorative lighting for trees and large pots supported by 10- to 15-foot-tall decorative poles like those in neighboring Aztec dominated discussion of the project.

Miller stressed the economic advantage of having lighting included as part of the project's plans. That, he said, would cost $100,000 to $150,000.

Ultimately, the council shied away from going forward with lighting right away.

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A LITTLE CHAOS Official Trailer
The world #39;s greatest landscape architect Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) designer of the Versailles gardens is unfulfilled in love. Madame Sabine de Ba...

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Marin Landscape Architect, Designer and Contractor - Mystical Landscapes
http://www.mysticallandscapes.com/ - Mystical Landscapes is a Marin based landscape architect and landscape design company that assists clients with all thei...

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Derbyshire Street Pocket Park
Landscape architect: Greysmith Associates.

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Landscape architect: Project Studio Park Works.

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