The first book to present the work of Surfacedesign, an innovative San Francisco landscape architecture and urban design firm with major public and private projects throughout the Bay Area and in Hawaii, Mexico, and New Zealand.
A graduate of the University of Southern California and Harvard
Graduate School of Design, James Lord is trained as both an
architect and a landscape architect. Prior to opening
Surfacedesign, he worked at the offices of Peter Walker and
Partners, Martha Schwartz Partners, and Hargreaves Associates. His
innovative design approach has established the firm as a leader in
urban design and sustainability internationally. Roderick Wyllie
leads the office's residential, estate, and vineyard design
efforts, integrating a passion for craft and vast knowledge of
plants and material construction into all phases of the design
process. Roderick holds a BA in music from Harvard College and an
MLA from the Graduate School of Design. Geoff di Girolamo directs
the firm's large-scale urban design projects nationally and in
Asia. Prior to joining Surfacedesign, he worked as an architect
with SOM, Pei Cobb Freed, and Marta Fry Landscape Associates. He
received a BA in art from the University of California, Santa Cruz
and an M.Arch from UCLA.
Anita Berrizbeitia is professor and chair of the Department of
Landscape Architecture at the GSD.
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