design teams Archives - Water Shapes

The Perfect Trend

I've heard it often enough in the past couple years that I'm becoming a believer: It looks as though more and more watershapers are finding seats at the design table and have become respected participants in water-related aspects of significant projects led by

The Architect Connection

‘Those of us in the design and construction industry are engaged in a singularly complicated human endeavor. To make things work,’ noted architect Greg Danskin in a March 2008 WaterShapes feature article, ‘it’s common for many technical disciplines to come together, including soils and structural engineers and contractors and subcontractors as well as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, lighting designers and watershapers – all working in concert to bring form to the goals and aspirations of the clients. ‘These professionals unite in designing spaces that

An Emergent Profession

As I was graduating from college many years ago, one of my professors predicted that more than 30 percent of us would eventually hold jobs that hadn't been invented yet. With the emergence of the Internet and other mass-communication technologies in recent years, I'd be hard pressed to think he was anything but conservative with his forecast. It's exciting to think we live at a time when new vocations are constantly emerging to provide us with ever-broadening sets of employment options. And it's exciting to point out that one of these new professions

An Emergent Profession

As I was graduating from college many years ago, one of my professors predicted that more than 30 percent of us would eventually hold jobs that hadn't been invented yet. With the emergence of the Internet and other mass-communication technologies in recent years, I'd be hard pressed to think he was anything but conservative with his forecast. It's exciting to think we live at a time when new vocations are constantly emerging to provide us with ever-broadening sets of employment options. And it's exciting to point out that one of these new professions