Thinking Rocks Living Stones

various projects

Collaboration master stonemasons, including Paul Haddad Falmouth Masonry

Thinking Rocks, Living Stones draws from the essay of the same name by Graham Parkes. In the essay, Parkes writes, “rocks are thought to partake of the powers of the mountain less through their resembling its outward appearance than for their being true microcosms, animated by the same energies that formed the heights and peaks.”

We see “rocks” as specimen glacial erratics in New England or smooth rocks rounded by the actions of rivers and grit shaping them over time. The expression of these forces in the garden or landscape is a frequent exploration in our work. We see “stone” as shaped by the wedge, the chisel, the saw — shaped and given dimension with specificity. The sedimentary bluestone should lay flat; the metamorphic granites can pile. Landscape Architecture is geologic.