A Blog on (Singapore!) Landscape Design

"When I first came to Singapore, I remember sitting in on a meeting at which the architect was talking about his work, and I said something - being a foreigner, I didn't know any better - about site planning. I said, couldn't we do it another way?

He turned around and said: 'You're the landscape architect. Why are you asking me this question? You're just here to stick the plants in after we've finished."

- Henry Steed, on being a landscape architect in the industry's early period

Despite landscape architecture coming a long way since then, the field is really still in its infancy. Ok, I'll admit that my yardstick of 'infancy' consists of google-ing 'landscape architecture in singapore', and concluding that it did not yield any interesting result.. School programmes, landscape design firms.. No prominent landscape works, no story of Singapore urban landscape, natural landscape... Moreover, we don't have a Bachelor's Degree program for landscape architecture, the only magazine catering to landscape design has pages upon pages of articles sponsored by contractors.. Aaaaaand, when I google-ed 'landscape design blog singapore' nothing much came up too! (Hey, I have to survey the competition, no?)

Which I think is rather upsetting, because I do think there are interesting landscape things going on here in our sunny little red dot.. There are issues to discuss, projects to showcase, firms to feature, and plants to ogle at!

Which is the whole reason for starting this blog, aside from chronicling my journey from greenhorn to (hopefully) Green Thumb. Disclaimer though, the things I will put here reflect my opinions, my biases, my preferences.. I am not trying to be comprehensive, though I will try to be interesting.

Enjoy!