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Real Estate/Development

Oct. 2, 1999

Back to nature

Calvin R. Abe sees his role as a landscape architect as changing the way people perceive public landscapes. "It's about creating landscapes that transform not the place but the individual who's experiencing the landscape," says Abe. "The older I get, the more I see the power of landscape as a way of creating the connection between nature and human beings." His firm, Calvin R. Abe Associates Inc., is located in the historic former Helms Bakery complex off Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Calvin R. Abe sees his role as a landscape architect as changing the way people perceive public landscapes. "It's about creating landscapes that transform not the place but the individual who's experiencing the landscape," says Abe. "The older I get, the more I see the power of landscape as a way of creating the connection between nature and human beings." His firm, Calvin R. Abe Associates Inc., is located in the historic former Helms Bakery complex off Venice Boulevard in Los ...

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