Next Progressives: SurfaceDesign

摘要

Sigmund Freud believed that psychoanalysis was like archaeology-a slow, methodical digging down to reveal what the conscious mind had suppressed. The principals of San Francisco-based SurfaceDesign aren't psychoanalysts, but they, too, describe their work as an archaeological enterprise: Many of their projects begin with the recovery of half-buried cultural traditions that become the foundation-metaphorical and also sometimes literal-of a new landscape. SurfaceDesign got a tentative start in 2001, when James Lord was employed in the Berkeley, Calif., office of Peter Walker. Lord launched the firm as a side venture, hoping to drum up enough work so that he and fellow landscape architect Roderick Wyllie could pursue it full-time.