Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown

Firm: SmithGroupJJR, Phoenix
Education: BS, urban planning and landscape architecture, Arizona State University; MS, real estate development, MIT
ASLA Chapter: Arizona
Category: Works

Christopher Brown's portfolio shows his love and respect for nature and native materials. In the mid-1980s, he established the Native Plant Protection Ordinance and Hillside Overlay Method to protect the areas around Scottsdale and Phoenix from rampant development. Those guidelines are still in use today. As a writer, lecturer, and educator, he freely shares his knowledge through compelling interpretation and education. His credo, after the fieldwork is done, is: ''If nobody knows you did anything, then you did a good job.''

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