The Landscape Architecture of Paul Sangha brings landscape to the
foreground of daily life - as lifestyle, recreation, aesthetic
pleasure - challenging notions of what one can gain from their outdoor
surroundings. Sensuous, playful, and provocative, designs by Paul Sangha
are meditations on the human relationship with landscape. Drawing on an
encyclopedic knowledge of materials and botanical species as well as a
deep understanding of clients' habits and desires, works by Paul Sangha
are robust systems for living. The book presents twelve residential
projects by the award- winning Vancouver-based firm. The featured
projects demonstrate the practice's expertise in orchestrating powerful,
unique landscapes with spatial harmony, tactful grade changes, and
vibrant plant life. An urban garden for a compact lot gracefully weaves
the inside and outside to expand the space of both; a series of
programmed terraces creates a staircase gradually descending from the
residence to the wilds; and a cantilevered platform is an invitation
into the canopy of an old-growth forest. The Landscape Architecture of
Paul Sangha documents the inspiration, process, and poetry of Paul
Sangha's designs. Coupled with text that vividly describes the details
and design concepts, photographer Nic Lehoux sensitively captures each
project, narrating through image the spellbinding experience of
discovering gardens. This book reveals the inner-workings of a dynamic
practice built on the notion that man can write himself in the land, and
land can write itself in the man.
