Love my Work
Jeremy Gill
... from a small urban art
installation through to the
strategic master planning
of a city
Has the BLArch degree changed your life?
The degree has allowed me to view the world at a
variety of scales. Understanding the relationships
between the cultural, environmental and economic
factors that govern our lives, I can explore ways in
which to integrate them more intrinsically into our
day-to-day lives.
What is your role in your current job?
My role as a landscape architect in a small private
practice is vast. It ranges from administrative tasks,
through to design and documentation of projects
such as apartment courtyards, train stations,
foreshore parks, as well as project management.
Do you love your work? Why?
I do love my work because of the wide range of
opportunities and challenges that it throws at me.
Design is all about challenging conventions to
achieve the best possible outcome. There are also
not many professions who’s focus can range from a
small urban art installation through to the strategic
master planning of a city for 1 million people.
What are the most valuable lessons from the
BLArch program?
Challenge not only convention, but your own
preconceived notions. By pushing boundaries
through design outcomes that you never thought
imaginable, it may end up being the most logical
solution.
The other is that in our global ecosystem, the
integration of our cultural needs and those of
the environment is essential, and we landscape
architects have the knowledge and ability to make
it happen.
How have you apply these lessons to your work?
These lessons are applied every day through
challenging our design ideas in our office. We have
a strong environmental focus in all facets of design
and by pushing new design ideas, we have the
ability to make unconventional design approaches
common practice.
What do you hope to be your contributions to
society/ world?
To rid cities such as Sydney of the rubbish that
graces the blocks of most new developments! By
focusing attention on logical project management
and design, we can really raise the bar in terms of
designing societies that are symbiotically related to
the environment they inhabit.
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