LASN's readers have various artists and Gary Robinette, who contributed an illustrated history of Landscape Architecture in Texas, to thank for showing how master Landscape Architects create artful landscape designs with form, line and color and provide places for sculpture in landscape design and planning projects.

Architect Phillip Johnson fostered a tradition of architectural landscape projects like this dramatic Water Garden in Fort Worth (above).

Peter Walker and Associates used a steam fountain of layered-stone to provide the traditional focal interest of sculpture in the turn-around entry of the Marriott Hotel at Solana in Westlake (below, left)and the individual scultural elements of containered upright conifers in a check row pattern in a courtyard at the IBM Complex, also at Solana in Westlake, (below right).

Walker also treated the entire interchange at the IBM Complex as a landscape design element, integrating architecture and infrastructure-as shown in the model (below, lower photo).

MND & Partners' site redevelopment design for Dallas City Hall Plaza and "Reunion Arena" (above) gave shape and form to I.M. Pei's City Hall design.

Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz designed a series of water features that radiate out from the building at the IBM Federal Systems Division in Clearlake, eventually blending in with the surrounding pine woodland (left and center).

Sited on the bluff between the river and the county courthouse (lower photo below, bottom lefthand corner), Heritage Park was conceived with the purpose of reinforcing the reasons for the city's early founding and growth. One of the water walls at the Lawrence Halprin-designed park features an early plan of the City of Fort Worth, picturing the nearby Trinity River as one of the form givers of the first settlement (upper photo below)

In stylistic contrast to the formal geometry of the original Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the 3.7-acre addition designed by Michael Van Valkenburg and Associates, Inc. defines informal areas for sculpture with groves of deciduous trees, beds of flowering perennials, a 110-by-60-foot granite-paved sculpture plaza (pictured above and in inset), and a 13-foot-high, 300-foot-long stainless steel arbor-a sculpture in itself-(above, background) along a perimeter edge.