Glenn Lawton - BLA. ASLA.

Member of the American Society of Landscape Architechts since 2005.

For Glenn, being a native to Long Island was idyllic. The bountiful cultural attributes of Manhattan were balanced in contrast to the serenity and complexity of the ecological successions found in Montauk, each remaining equally inspirational to this day.

As a boy, Glenn was surrounded, challenged and nurtured by artists and educators alike. Traveling and camping through forty-eight states and 18 European countries he quietly observed how man interacted with nature.

His summers, thereafter, were spent in the northeast kingdom of Vermont where his family and friends built a geodesic dome as a retreat. There, Glenn’s reverence for nature was galvanized.

Form follows function…less is more

Musically adept and artistically skilled, he grew endlessly curious about the role science played in the creative arts. Creativity is uniquely a human trait, a reflection of our ability to imagine, innovate and produce novelty. He recognized early on that there were “principles of composition” that were broadly shared by most creative artists. His early education was formidable, balancing his creative aptitude with his pragmatic – studying advanced mathematics, earth sciences, music theory, mechanical drawing, sociology, and psychology. Glenn’s merging of the arts and sciences flourished until that infamous day when he learned about the profession of Landscape Architecture.

Glenn received a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture, and a minor in fine arts from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, a dissertation led him to study in Kyoto, Japan:

·         Proportional Harmonies: The Principles of Composition.

·         Zen–Aesthetics: A Quantitative Methodology for Measuring Aesthetic.

The synopsis is part of a universal metric to guide design professionals to appropriately articulate “space” in pursuit of a “universal aesthetic.”