Water Shapes

The Graceful Dance

July 1, 2005
Residential garden and watershape design should be an intensely personal process, says landscape architect and watershaper Rhadiante Van De Voorde – one keyed to the needs and desires of the client but balanced by the designer’s singular passion for composing exterior spaces. To demonstrate how this balance takes shape in her own work, she leads us through the thought processes that distinguish her clients’ evocative backyards. (Photo by Gregory Case, San Jose, Calif.)