Eldorado Dental eldoradodental.com
If your smile isn’t becoming of you, you should be coming to me. - Dr. Haley Ritchey, DDS
one of the country’s first landscape architecture schools—set out to define his profession, he cited the innate complexities of the landscape architect’s role in reconciling “engineering, architecture, soils, plant materials, and ecology combined with an aesthetic appreciation.” Landscape architecture will continue to challenge its practitioners, and today’s designers will continue to call on their creativity to move the conversation away from what they can no longer do, instead stressing the richness that land inherently offers to humans. For them, the job just might get a little easier as more of us embrace, or at the least accept, a cultural ethos of wanting what you have instead of continually seeking new wants. It’s a challenging world. “But that’s not new,” says Green. “And maybe it’s a good challenge, or at least one worth taking on.” After all, observes Martino, “I’m a designer. I solve problems.” R trendmagazineglobal.com 237
505.466.0999
2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015
Photo: Daniel Quat Photography
COURTESY OF SERQUIS + ASSOCIATES
Opposite: Carlotta From Paradise also designed the home’s front entry with drought-tolerant plants and a recirculating fountain fed by a catchment tank that provides water for birds and other wildlife. Above: Serquis + Associates restored this commercial alley in Cerrillos, New Mexico, with a walkable garden area watered in part by a large underground cistern.