The Landscape Architecture of Paul Sangha brings landscape to the foreground of daily life – as lifestyle, recreation, aesthetic pleasure – challenging notions of what one can gain from their outdoor surroundings. Sensuous, playful, and provocative, designs by Paul Sangha are meditations on the human relationship with landscape. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of materials and botanical species as well as a deep understanding of clients’ habits and desires, works by Paul Sangha are robust systems for living. The book presents twelve residential projects by the award-winning Vancouver-based firm. The featured projects demonstrate the practice’s expertise in orchestrating powerful, unique landscapes with spatial harmony, tactful grade changes, and vibrant plant life. An urban garden for a compact lot gracefully weaves the inside and outside to expand the space of both; a series of programmed terraces creates a staircase gradually descending from the residence to the wilds; and a cantilevered platform is an invitation into the canopy of an old-growth forest. The Landscape Architecture of Paul Sangha documents the inspiration, process, and poetry of Paul Sangha’s designs. Coupled with text that vividly describes the details and design concepts, photographer Nic Lehoux sensitively captures each project, narrating through image the spellbinding experience of discovering gardens. This book reveals the inner-workings of a dynamic practice built on the notion that man can write himself in the land, and land can write itself in the man.

• Written by Carolyn Deuschle
• Photography by Nic Lehoux
• Essay by Byron Hawes
• Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

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Contributors Biographies

Paul Sangha is a gold medalist of UBC’s Landscape Architecture Program, with ten years of experience as a senior landscape architect and designer for Ron Rule Consultants Ltd., and three and a half years of experience as partner of Rule, Sangha and Associates Ltd. Paul established Paul Sangha Ltd. in 1999. Early in Sangha’s career he recognized his passion lay in creating unique landscapes and has completely focused his career to pursue excellence within this. Uniting client aspirations in seamless harmony with the site and home has become the signature of his work, whether it be a classic or modern design.

Carolyn Deuschle is a Master’s of Landscape Architecture candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Previously an editor at Princeton Architectural Press in New York, Carolyn is interested in making the discourse surrounding landscape architecture more accessible to a mass audience. Her writing has appeared in Landscape Architecture magazine and on DesignObserver.com.

Byron Hawes is a Toronto-based writer and designer. He is the founder of the underground design magazine The Après Garde, and a co-founder of I-V, a boutique architecture and design firm that has done projects including a recording studio for OVOsound, Campari’s Canadian HQ, and Spin Toronto. He was previously a consulting Editor at Architectural Digest China, Greater China Editor for BlackBook Magazine, and a Contributing Editor for both HighSnobiety and Flofferz, as well as contributing to publications including Monocle, Wallpaper, Hypebeast, Coolhunting, and Azure, amongst others. Additionally, he co-authored the book ‘The Landscape Architecture of Paul Sangha’.

Nic Lehoux is a Canadian architectural photographer who works with architects that push the boundaries of design of the built environment. Nic is regularly commissioned to document significant buildings around the world with his unique eye, lighting, and sense of composition. His images are frequently published in the international architectural press. His professional work puts a particular emphasis on incorporating people within tightly-composed architectural photographs. Nic is influenced by the concept of the “decisive moment” – popularized by Henry Cartier-Bresson – which he adapts to the rigors of architectural photography. His images therefore serve as a reflection on the interaction of people with the built environment.