- CAD drawing of overlook options for The Yards Park
image: M. Paul Friedberg
M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA has transitioned into the digital age and urges other older professionals to find the freedom he has discovered.
He has practiced landscape architecture for 54 years and has designed many memorable places such as Pershing Park in Washington, DC. He has seen the tools of the profession transformed from hand drawings, watercolors and slide rules to the use of calculators and digitally produced drawings. He started our conversation by stating “You’re talking to a dinosaur.” He is an octogenarian landscape architect who is using CAD for his professional work. Here are Paul’s viewpoints on his use of technology in practice based on two extended conversations with him.