PROFILE
Principal, Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture provides comprehensive Landscape Architecture services from concept to execution, including site design, construction management, public relations, selection of hardscape materials, plants and furniture. Our firm specializes in the unique and unusual, artistic and inspirational, and thought provoking design solutions that are site sensitive.
EXPERIENCE
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture, Principal, Los Osos, CA 2002-Present
College of Landscape Architecture California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA Lecturer LA 231-03, Winter Quarter, 2003
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Design, Sole Proprietor, San Francisco, CA 1992-2002 Peter Walker & Partners, San Francisco, CA 1991-1992
Design and produce models for presentations through conceptual and design development phases.
Martha Schwartz, Ken Smith, David Meyer; San Francisco, CA 1990-1991
Develop working drawings and conduct research for project execution. Produce full scale mock ups for study and production.
Peridian, Irvine, CA 1989-1990
Design large scale land planning projects including theme parks, hotels, and resort communities
EDUCATION
California State Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. Bachelor of Science, Landscape Architecture, 1989
Participant in the Department of Landscape Architecture overseas study program in Spain and Portugal. The program encompassed an intensive study of design, architecture and culture of the Iberian Peninsula, 1987
LICENSURE/ MEMBERSHIP
Registered Landscape Architect, State of California, 2002-present
Member, American Society of Landscape Architects
Member, American Institute of Architects
Member Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, CA
Member California Horticultural Society San Francisco, CA
Member, Mediterranean Garden Society Central Coast Chapter Friends of Hearst Castle, Membership Committee, 2009
HONORS AND AWARDS
The Best of California Design Award, California Home + Design Magazine 2009
Sunset Dream Garden Award, Sunset Magazine, 2008
Obispo Beautiful Award of Commendation, 2007
Golden Trowel Award, Garden Design Magazine, 2006
Sunset Dream Garden Award, Sunset Magazine, 2006
Golden Trowel Award, Garden Design Magazine, 2002
Obispo Beautiful Award of Commendation, 2002
Obispo Beautiful Letter of Recognition, 2002
INSTALLATIONS
Saint Timothy’s Catholic Church, Morro Bay, CA 2006
Ceremonial Wedding Garden Spooner’s Cove, Montana De Oro State Park, CA 2005
San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Festival, “Judges Choice Award,” 2004
San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Festival, “Peoples Choice Award,” 2003
San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Festival, “Judges Choice Award,” 2002
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Sunset Books, “Backyard Secrets,” 2009 pages 1, 88-91, 94
Sunset Books, “Backyard Secrets,” 2008 pages 24-25.
Images Publishing “Outdoor Living,” 2007 pages 32-33, 54, 118-121, 128-129, 136-139, 144-145, 196-197, 206-209.
Sunset Books, “Garden Makeovers,” “Scenic Remake,” 2007 page 31.
Sunset Books, “Sunset Western Landscaping,” 2006 pages 290, 324, 398.
Sunset Books, “Before and After Garden Makeovers,” 2006 pages 12-13.
MAGAZINES
Sunset Magazine “Dream Garden Awards, Garden Blends Seamlessly Into the Natural Landscape” April 2009, pages 82, 83.
California Home + Design Magazine “The Best of California Design Awards,” Jan-Feb 2009, page 132. Sunset Magazine “Design That Works,” Sept. 2008, page 44.
Atomic Ranch Magazine “Modernist Landscaping in a Mediterranean Climate,” Spring 2008 pages 60-66.
Sunset Magazine “Open invitation,” Jan 2008, pages 47-48.
Design & Decor Magazine “A Site to Behold,” Spring 2008, pages 4, 18-19, 23.
Garden Design Magazine, “Modern Revision,” Golden Trowel Winner, June 2007, pages 48-50. Garden Design Magazine, “Coming Up,” Golden Trowel Winner, Feb. 2007 page 83.
Sunset Magazine “Backyard Dining,” June 2007 pages 118-119.
Sunset Magazine “Curves and Color,” July 2007 page 54.
Central Coast Magazine “The style Issue,””Composite Landscaping,” Sept. 2007 pages 38-39.
Haven Magazine “Welcome to 21st Century Gardening,” Spring 2006 pages 42-45.
Sunset Magazine “Scenic Remake a San Luis Obispo Garden Embraces It’s Heritage” May 2005. pages 88-90.
Sunset Magazine “Backyard Geometry: A Diagonal Grid Brings Serenity to an Awkward Space in San Luis Obispo” Oct. 2004. page 74.
Garden Design Magazine Golden Trowel Awards “Bungalow Borders” Feb.-Mar. 2003. page 59. Metropolitan Home ”Bay Watch” Sept.-Oct. 1999.
Architectural Digest “A Contemporary Approach to the Ageless” Dec. 1993.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, LA 130 Landscape Interpretation, “Regionalism,” 2009
Santa Barbara City College Environmental Horticulture Department, “Design Inspiration In Your Environment,” 2009
Mediterranean Garden Society Central Coast Chapter, Pre-AMG meeting “Regionalism,” 2008
Dynascape Software Conference “Landscape Inspiration,” 2007
CLCA California Landscape Contractors Association, “Why Design?” 2007
Hearst Lecture Series, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, “Leading Landscape Architecture,” 2006
Mediterranean Garden Society Central Coast Chapter, “Inspirational Exterior Rooms,” 2005
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Landscape Industry Club, “Engineering Plaza Design to Inspire,” 2004
Mediterranean Garden Society Central Coast Chapter, “Mediterranean Plants as Architecture,” 2003 AIA Central Coast Chapter “ Landscape Architecture a Response to Site and Architecture,” 2003 San Luis Obispo Botanical Gardens, “Space and Plants,” 2003
