James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie are founding partners of Surfacedesign. Based in San Francisco since 2006, Surfacedesign received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. Integral to the ideology of the practice, Surfacedesign focuses on cultivating a sense of connection to the built and natural world, pushing people to engage with the landscape in new ways. Surfacedesign’s process is rooted in asking novel questions and listening to a site and its users. James and Roderick met in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they are now both professors in practice.
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