Pamela Burton is an internationally renowned landscape architect who has practiced in Santa Monica, California, since 1975. Her firm creates designs that evolve from a site’s cultural and physical environment and are informed by geography, ecology, and history. Pamela Burton & Company designs landscapes and gardens for both private and public projects. Recent and ongoing projects include Colorado Center (now called Yahoo Center) in Santa Monica; the Claire Trevor Arts Plaza at the University of California, Irvine, with Maya Lin; Santa Monica Public Library; the Rockefeller Center in New York; and Rochavera Office Tower complex in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Burton has written and lectured on topics such as “Garden as Sanctuary,” “Memory and Landscape,” and “Balance and Uncertainty.” She has taught and lectured at the University of Southern California and Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Artist Statement: Daily observations gussied up.