Todd longstaffe gowan biography of donald

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is the president of the London Parks and Gardens Trust.

A landscape architect with an international practice based in London, he has advised on many public and private historic gardens, including National Trust and English Heritage historic landscapes. He lectures widely on landscape history and design both in Britain and abroad, and holds a variety of advisory roles, including gardens adviser to Historic Royal Palaces.

I read that you hate the label �landscape architect�.

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is the president of the London Parks and Gardens Trust.

Quite the social history of London's squares the author claims, but as a balanced general history, it arguably suits its purpose even better.

Award winning landscape designer Todd Longstaffe-Gowan brings to his garden design a sense of the complexities of our relation to the past.

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect and historian.

History with cultural history and biography.

Why is that?

I don�t hate it so much as I find it a curiously unflattering description on account of the fact that so much of the work of many landscape architects is rather lacklustre. People can, of course, call me what they want.

I�m not too hung up on titles.

You have worked on some amazing projects; is there one that stands out?

Hampton Court, where I�ve collaborated with Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) for over twenty years. It is a vast and very diverse landscape and we�ve made a c