Diana Balmori is a trained historian and credits this with giving her an appreciation of the process of research, which she incorporates into the sinew of the design work in the office. In her landscape work, Balmori does not seek a formal imitation of nature: notwithstanding, nature lies immanent in the work because it is subject to its temporal rhythms, she says.
20 projects by Balmori Associates are included in this monograph and Jayne Merkel writes about Diana Balmori and her work.Founded in 1990, the landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates aims to explore and expand the boundaries of landscape as it intersects with art, architecture and engineering. The limitless scale of their work ranges from waterfront master plans, floating islands and greenways, to urban plazas and parks, to green roofs and residential gardens. This monograph examines twenty projects, richly illustrated with full colour photographs, plans, models, explanatory texts and essays.