Fresh Water is a book that addresses regional, territorial, and continental water issues through inter-disciplinary design research in landscape architecture.
Mary Pat McGuire, RLA is assistant professor at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, and principal designer at Water Lab. Previously McGuire taught at IIT in Chicago, practiced with Peter Walker & Partners, and served fellowships with the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Jessica M Henson, RLA is an associate at OLIN, where she is leading the LA County Master Plan for the Los Angeles River. Henson has an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania and BArch from IIT - Chicago.
"This volume brings together the research of practitioners and educators from the groundbreaking Fresh Water symposium held last year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Landscape Architecture.... Fresh thinking lays the groundwork for much-needed future research in this area." --Landscape Architecture Magazine