“An excellent design is where you can’t tell where the landscape architect has been.”
ome version of this statement is often used to describe the spirit of landscape architecture. While it captures aspects of our design practice, this position leads to complications when it comes to questions of authorship, particularly in an increasingly competitive professional environment where designers must demonstrate a range of expertise. Issues of authorship become even more fraught in the contemporary multidisciplinary project. Historically, it has been relatively straightforward to trace the authors of single spatial typologies, such as the garden or the park. But in the multidisciplinary project, which is shaped by
