David Hocker won for these two landscape designs: The Power House, a 1930s former commercial structure renovated for residential use, and The Pool House in Highland Park, a new urban retreat for an artist and for a car collector who resided next door. Usually these landscape awards go to architects who design in the mountains or along the ocean on the West Coast or in the verdant and forested East Coast. Landscape architect David Hocker recently won two American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Awards for these projects. The combination of these two talents and disciplines created extraordinary results. Two excellent examples of the collaboration of a landscape architect ( David Hocker) and an architect ( Gary Cunningham) are the Power House in Dallas and the Pool House in Highland Park. David Hocker Wins Two American Society of Landscape Architects Awards However, I’ve developed quite a different opinion having seen the work of great landscape architects in Dallas, such as the legendary Arthur and Marie Berger, and Thomas Church, as well as current landscape architects such as Armstrong-Berger, David Hocker, David Rolston, Kevin Sloan, Harold Leidner, Michael Kinler, Seeing their work in context to architecturally significant homes, it’s clear that these architects help accentuate the design of the home and give the home context in the same way a natural setting such as a mountain or a lake defines the essence of a residence. Many think of landscapes as a “builder allowance” of a few thousand dollars for some hedgerows, foundation plantings and flower beds that serve as mitigating ornamentation. A talented landscape architect can add even more context, texture and meaning to an architect-designed home. A brilliantly designed home will always be a fabulous home.
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