When Newton and Helen Harrison walked into the design studio where I worked in the late 1980s, I followed them right back out the door and never looked back. I was thunderstruck by their message that all work must first advantage the biosphere, and the ramifications of this for the practice of landscape architecture. With the help of David Antin, I joined the MFA program at UCSD. I wanted to learn from the Harrisons from the ground up and I did, as a graduate student, as Helen’s teaching assistant for her Environmental Art class (a position which mostly consisted of fetching coffee and parking her car), as an artist’s assistant on projects from Pasadena to Berlin, a landscape architectural consultant and a co-worker. More recently I am a design-researcher for the Center for the Force Majeure established by the Harrisons at UC Santa Cruz. Here I have been working on...

You do not currently have access to this content.