WESTERN LIVING
Summer 2015

Eco Designer of the Year 2015

A landscape designer-turned- architect brings a green perspective to every space.

James Tuer is a bit of a mash-up artist. “There’s a connection between inside and out,” says Western Living’s 2015 Eco Designer of the Year. It’s no surprise he thinks this way: Tuer started off his career as a landscape architect before studying architecture proper, and he still finds himself looking at the world through the lens of a garden designer. “I study the site like a landscape architect,” he says. “I look at the winds, the views, the sun.”