

Landscape Zen at the University of Oregon
“To plan or make decisions about something that is being built or created.” This is one of the definitions of the word, “design.” In Landscape Architecture, this has always been a primary function. Forward-thinking. Imagining and then producing what may be, can be, ought to be. It is envisioning the future. It is filling a void. What if, however, just for fun, we were to embrace the void? What then? Perhaps, just to switch things up, design became about removing substan